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

Tatiana Lapicus, the new Permanent Representative of Moldova to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, since 2005, Ms. Lapicus had been serving as Vice Minister for Culture and Tourism of Moldova. With a long career in the tourism and foreign relations sectors of government, Ms. Lapicus was the Executive Director of the Department of Tourism Development from 2003 to 2005, and prior to that had served as Executive Director of the National Tourism Agency, starting in 2000.

From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Lapicus was the Director of the Department of International Relations of the Government. From 1990 to 1997, she worked in the economic sector, serving as the Director of the Department of External Economic Relations within the Treasury from 1994 to 1997, as the Vice Minister of the same Ministry for the two years before that, and as Deputy Director of the Financial Section of Government from 1990 to 1992.

Ms. Lapicus graduated from the Sergey Lazo Polytechnic Institute (renamed the Technical University of Moldova) in Chişinău in 1979 with a degree in economics. She has also studied at the European Institute for Public Administration in Maastricht, and participated in an internship programme at the World Tourism Organization.

Born on 6 November 1957 in Lapusna, Moldova, Ms. Lapicus is married with two children.

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