NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GHANA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

14 February 1996

Press Release
BIO/3006

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GHANA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

19960214 Biographical Note

Jack Botwe Wilmot, the new Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations, this afternoon presented his credentials to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

From May 1994 to January 1996, Mr. Wilmot was Ghana's Ambassador to Egypt and Lebanon, as well as its High Commissioner to Cyprus. He served as a member of the Committee of Eminent Persons for the Review of the Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (1991-1993). He was chief delegate of Ghana on the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Permanent Steering Committee (1989-1993), and participated in the drafting of the Treaty of the African Economic Community and some of the related protocols.

Mr. Wilmot began his career in 1959 as Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Interior. The following year, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he served in various capacities until 1975. Following a four- year assignment as Principal (Permanent) Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Planning, where he also served as the National Authorizing Officer in all European Economic Community (EEC) operations in Ghana as well as of ECOWAS affairs, he returned to the Foreign Ministry in 1979.

His assignments at the Foreign Ministry included the following: Chief Director, Political and Economic Relations Department (1987-1994); Director, Africa and OAU Bureau (1985-1987); Ambassador to Belgium, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1979-1985); Minister-Counsellor and Charge d'affaires, Embassy of Ghana in Brussels (1970- 1975); Director, Economic Relations Department (Multilateral Division) (1968- 1970); Counsellor (Economic Affairs), Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations (1965-1968), where he was previously assigned as First Secretary (1964-1965); Acting Director, Eastern Europe Department (1963-1964); and First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Ghana High Commission in Lagos (1961-1963).

Mr. Wilmot was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Grays Inn, London, in 1959, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ghana in 1971 He is member of the Ghana Bar and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

Born on 15 February 1934, Mr. Wilmot is married and has three children.

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