Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF antigua and barbuda PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

The new Permanent Representative from Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, John W. Ashe, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Prior to his appointment, from 1995 to 2004, Mr. Ashe was Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.  From 2000 to 2004, he served concurrently as Ambassador/High Commissioner (non-resident) with duties related to the Asia/Pacific region with special responsibilities for India, the Philippines and Samoa.  From 1989 to 1995, he worked for his country’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations as Scientific Attaché, Counsellor and Minister Counsellor.

Mr. Ashe served in a leadership position on more than 40 committees and organizations.  He is a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).  In 2000, he was Chairman of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  He is also Chairman of the Board of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre.

Before entering the foreign service of Antigua and Barbuda, Mr. Ashe was a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, among other things, in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1984 to 1985.  Before that, from 1980 to 1984, he was a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada.

Mr. Ashe was educated at St. Mary’s University, Halifax; the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax; and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.

Born on 20 August 1954 in St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda, Mr. Ashe is married with two children.

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