NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY PRESENTS APPOINTMENT LETTER

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY PRESENTS APPOINTMENT LETTER

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

The new Permanent Observer of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Miles Stoby, presented his letter of appointment to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday, 5 October.

Prior to his new appointment, Mr. Stoby served as Senior Adviser on UN Reform to Julian Hunte, President of the fifty-eighth session of the  General Assembly.  Before that, he had been a senior official in the United Nations Secretariat and a senior diplomat in the foreign service of his native Guyana.

From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Stoby was Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services in the Secretariat.  He had previously served as Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator for the United Nations Millennium Assembly, coordinating preparations for the Millennium Summit in 2000.  Earlier, he had been Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships in 1998, and Deputy Executive Coordinator for United Nations Reform in 1997.

Between 1992 and 1996, Mr. Stoby was Director of the Division for Policy Coordination and Economic and Social Council Affairs in the Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development.  He was concomitantly appointed Coordinator of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held in Barbados in 1994.  From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Stoby served as Director of the Division of Economic and Social Council Affairs and Secretariat Services, and Secretary to the Economic and Social Council.  He was also Secretary to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.

From 1987 to 1988, Mr. Stoby was Director-in-Charge of the Management Advisory Service and Central Evaluation Unit, Department of Administration and Management.  He was Director of the Division for Economic and Social Information, Department of Public Information, from 1984 to 1987.

On secondment from his Government, Mr. Stoby first served in the United Nations Secretariat from 1971 to 1973 as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs.  He rejoined the Secretariat in 1978 as Principal Officer in the Office of the Director-General for Development and International Economic Cooperation, where he remained until 1982.

Serving in the Guyanese Foreign Service from 1966 until 1978, Mr. Stoby’s first diplomatic postings included Washington, D.C., New York, where he was Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1974 to 1977, and Brasilia, where he was Chargé d’affaires from 1976 to 1977.

Born on 26 April 1943 in Georgetown, Guyana, Mr. Stoby earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics and political science from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.  He is married and has three daughters.

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*     This supersedes Press Release BIO/3372 dated 24 July 2001.

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