Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GAMBIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Tamsir Jallow, the new Permanent Representative of the Gambia to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Jallow was his country’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, while also accredited as its Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Croatia, Ireland, Israel and all of the Nordic countries.  From 2002 to 2005, he served as the Gambia’s Deputy High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, responsible for, among other things, the monitoring of finances.

From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Jallow was the majority leader of the National Assembly of the Gambia in the country’s capital, Banjul, chairing committees concerned with Government projects and appointments, among other issues.

From 1989 to 2000, he served as the General Secretary of the Gambia Teacher’s Union, working concurrently during much of that tenure on environmental education projects, including as head of the teaching team for training in connection with the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, known as the CILSS Project.

An educator by training, Mr. Jallow began his career as a science teacher in 1970, moving on to managerial positions in secondary schools and becoming a Senior Curriculum Officer and head of the Science Section of the Curriculum Development Centre of the Gambia in 1980 for the next nine years.

A 1970 graduate of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, Mr. Jallow holds post-graduate degrees and certificates in education from the University of Birmingham, England, the University of Kenya and the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, for which he was awarded the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship.

Born in the Gambia in 1941, Mr. Jallow is married with four children.

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