NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MONACO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MONACO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

Michel Borghini, the new Permanent Representative of Monaco to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

Since 1997, Mr. Borghini has served as Monaco’s representative to the Prince Albert I Foundation’s Oceanographic Institute.  In 1998, he also became his country’s representative to the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (CIESM).

From 1965 to 1999, he worked as a research physicist for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, serving as President of its Staff Association from 1990 to 1996.  Prior to that, from 1957 to 1965, he was a physicist at the Atomic Energy Research Centre (CEA) in Saclay, France.  Additionally, appointed to the Improvement Committee of the Monaco Scientific Centre in 1966, he served as its President from 1998 to 2000.

Mr. Borghini graduated in 1955 from the École Polytechnique de Paris, and completed further studies at the École supérieure de l’électricité de Paris in 1957.

Born on 16 January 1934 in Monaco, he is a widower with two children and four grandchildren.  He also serves as Vice-President of Monaco’s International Lawn Tennis Club.

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