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

Guy Blaise Nambo-Wezet, the new Permanent Representative of Gabon 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. Namo-Wezet served, among others, as the Inspector General for Hygiene and Health in the Workplace at the Ministry of Labour and Employment; as coordinator of AIDS programmes in the workplace at the same ministry; as Assistant Chief of Clinic at the faculty of medicine in Libreville; and as a lecturer at the National School of Administration in Libreville.

Mr. Namo-Wezet has participated in numerous conferences in the area of health and safety in the workplace, including the ninetieth, ninety-third and ninety-fourth International Labour Conferences, which were held by ILO in Geneva on 3 to 20 June 2002, 31 May to 16 June 2005 and 7 to 23 February 2006, respectively. He has also written extensively on the subject of health and safety in the workplace and is the founder of the Ivorian Society for Health in the Workplace.

Mr. Namo-Wezet received his doctorate in medicine from University Omar Bongo in Librevillle in 1992. Since then he has received graduate degrees in the area of health in the workplace and on legal reparations for bodily harm.

Born on 13 December 1960 in Port-Gentil Gabon, Mr. Nambo-Wezet is married with six children.



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