NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Paul Meyer, the new Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Mr. Meyer has been based at the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva since 2003, serving as Ambassador for Disarmament among other duties. From 2001 to 2003, he served as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. He was the Director-General of the Canadian International Security Bureau from 1998 to 2001. He served at the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. from 1992 to 1997.

Mr. Meyer joined the Department of External Affairs of Canada in 1975 as a Foreign Service Officer and served in Oslo from 1976 to 1978; Moscow from 1982 to 1984; and Brussels where he was a Political Counsellor in Canada’s delegation to NATO from 1988 to 1992. He has also held a variety of positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, primarily in the field of international security policy.

He was born and educated in Toronto, Canada where he graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in 1974 and a MA in 1975. He is married with three children.