New Permanent Representative of Thailand Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Suphatra Srimaitreephithak, the new Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Srimaitreephithak had been serving as Thailand’s Ambassador to Myanmar since April 2019. She served as Director General of Thailand’s International Cooperation Agency from December 2015 to 2019. She was Consul General at the Thai Consulate General in Guangzhou, China from April 2012 to November 2015.

Ms. Srimaitreephithak served as Second Secretary at the Thai Embassy to Belgium and to the European Community in Brussels from 1991 to 1995. She was First Secretary at the Mission of Thailand to the World Trade Organization in Geneva from 1995 to 1997. She was Deputy Consul General at the Thai Consulate General in Hong Kong from 2005 to 2009.

Ms. Srimaitreephithak was born in Bangkok in 1962. She has a bachelor degree in political science from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, and a master degree in development studies from Ohio University in the United States.

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