NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SWITZERLAND PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Philip Reuben Arnott Sealy, Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

From May 1998, Mr. Sealy served as Concurrent Ambassador to the Government of the Republic of Ecuador.  Before that, he was Concurrent Ambassador to the Government of the Republic of Colombia.  For a short period, July to October

1997, he served as Concurrent Ambassador to the Government of the Republic of Peru and from June 1996 to July 1997 had served as Ambassador to the Government of the Republic of Venezuela.

He began his career as a civil servant in 1972, the same year in which he was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago.  At that time, he became a Legal Cadet to the Ministry of Legal Affairs.  He then entered the Ministry of External Affairs and served in the Legal Affairs Division as a Foreign Service Officer from 1973 to 1976.

More recently, in 1992, Mr. Sealy assumed the role of Chief of Protocol and Director of the Legal Affairs Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  He continued in that post until he became Director of the Administration Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 1993 to 1995.  In 1995, he was appointed Director of the Legal Affairs Division, a position he retains.

In 1970 Mr. Sealy attended the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree.  He was admitted to the United Kingdom Bar in 1971 while a student at Gray’s Inn, London.  In 1972, as a post-graduate student, Mr. Sealy gained a Diploma in International Relations from the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.

Born in Barbados in 1947, Mr. Sealy has long been a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago.  He is married and has two children.

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