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

Dudley McKinley Thomas, the new Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Thomas had been serving as Liberia’s Ambassador to France since 2005, concurrently serving as Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Liberia’s Ambassador to Switzerland, Greece, Portugal and Spain, and Permanent Delegate of Liberia to the United Nations Office at Vienna. From 2004 to 2005, he served as Chargé d’affaires at Liberia’s Embassy in France. From 2003 to 2004, he was the Special Envoy of the President of Liberia.

From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Thomas served as Commercial Counselor at Liberia’s Embassy to Belgium, concurrently accredited to the European Union, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Mr. Thomas has also represented Liberia at major international and United Nations conferences. From 1981 to 1998, he worked in the private sector.

Mr. Thomas has a degree from the University of Liberia in business and public administration (1977) and a BSc in architecture from the University of Oklahoma in the United States (1984). He also has certificates in advanced marketing techniques and sales concepts. He was born in Monrovia, Liberia on 14 August 1955 and is married with two children.


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