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

Tan York Chor, the new Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Tan served as Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative in the Singapore Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Other foreign postings include serving as Counsellor to the Singapore High Commission in Canberra, Australia from 1997 to 1999. He served as First Secretary in Singapore’s Embassy in Bangkok from 1993 to 1994, and in Paris from 1991 to 1993.

Mr. Tan joined the Singapore Civil Service in 1985, and has worked in various capacities in the Ministry of Defence and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From March 2006 to May 2007, he was the Director for Europe at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, concurrently holding the post of Director for International Economics from March to October 2006. He served as Director for International Organizations from April to November 2007. He was Deputy Director for Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2002. Also during 2002, he was Senior Deputy Director for Policy, Planning, and Analysis Directorate II covering North America and Europe. He was Deputy Director for Europe from 1995 to 1997.

Mr. Tan graduated with a Chemical Engineering Degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieur de Chimie of Strasbourg in France in 1983. He was born on 27 July 1958 and is married with three daughters.



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