NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TOGO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
Presentation of Credentials
Yackoley Kokou Johnson, the new Permanent Representative of Togo to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Johnson had been serving as Ambassador of Togo to Great Britain since 2014. In 2012 and 2013, he was a member of the Togo team at the Security Council. He was Secretary General of the Ministry of Social Action and National Solidarity from 2008 to 2011, and concurrently was President of the National Committee for the Adoption of Children. Mr. Johnson was a Judicial Counsellor at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Promotion of Women and Protection of Children from 2002 to 2011. He started his career from 2001 to 2011 as a lecturer, including at the University of Kara and the Faculty of Law at the University of Lomé.
Mr. Johnson has a PhD in public law from the University of Auvergne- Clement 1- France (1998). He was born on 19 May 1965 in Tsevie, Togo. He is married with two children.
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