Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF JAMAICA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

The new Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, Raymond Osbourne Wolfe, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

Prior to his new appointment, since 2003, Mr. Wolfe was Under-Secretary for Multilateral Affairs at his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.  From 1998 to 2003, he was Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada, and for several years before that he held consecutive senior positions in the Foreign Ministry, including as Director of the European Affairs Department and Director of the Africa, Asia and Pacific Affairs Department.

Mr. Wolfe joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 1973.  In is early diplomatic career, he was posted in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1977-1981), at United Nations Headquarters in New York (1984-1990), in Nigeria (1990-1992) and in Japan (1992-1994).

In 1973, Mr. Wolfe graduated from the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor of Science in international relations with a focus on comparative politics, international politics, international economic relations, government and politics of the West Indies.  He also holds a diploma in international relations from the Foreign Service Officers’ Training Course in Canberra, Australia, and has completed a Commonwealth Executive Programme in public management at the Executive Education Centre of the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Born 4 May 1941, Mr. Wolfe is married, with two children.

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