NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF COLOMBIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL, A.I., OF UNOG

Beatriz Londono Soto, the new Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, Director-General, a.i., United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Londono had been serving as Colombia’s Ambassador to Switzerland since 2013. She was Colombia’s Minister of Health and Social Protection in 2012, and from 2010 to 2012, she served as Vice Minister of Health and Social Protection. She was the Director of the Colombian Institute for the Wellbeing of Families from 2002 to 2006, and has also worked extensively as a consultant for a large number of governmental, private and international organizations.

Ms. Londono has served as Advisor to the Colombian Ministry of Finance from 2001 to 2002; Advisor to the Colombian Director of National Planning from 1999 to 2000; Secretary of Health for the city of Bogota from 1995 to 1999; and Advisor to the Ministry of Health for the reform of the Colombian Social and Health Insurance Policy.

Ms. Londono graduated as a medical doctor and surgeon from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin. She also has a degree as a specialist in anaesthesiology from the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University in Boston.


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