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

Emmanuel Kwame Asiedu Antwi, the new Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Antwi served as Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ghana since December 2020. He served as Deputy Head of Mission at the Ghanaian Embassy in Abidjan (2017–2020). Before that appointment, he held a variety of posts, including Director of the State Protocol Department within the Office of the President (2013–2017) and Deputy Director and then Director of the Multilateral Bureau of the Foreign Ministry (2012–2013).

Mr. Antwi served as Head of the Chancery at Ghana’s High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2008-2012); and at Ghana’s High Commission in London, United Kingdom (2001-2005). He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997.

Mr. Antwi has a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Ghana, Legon Campus, Ghana (2000) and a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (1992). He is married.

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