Biographical Note

New permanent representative of INDONESIA presents credentials

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

Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa, the new Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Mr. Natalegawa, who began his long career with Indonesia’s Foreign Affairs Department in 1986, served for the past two years as Indonesia’s Ambassador to the Court of St. James and Ireland.  Prior to his assignment in London, between 2002 and 2005, Mr. Natalegawa consecutively served as the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and as the Director-General for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Cooperation in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

He also served from 1994 to 1999 at the Indonesian Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

Mr. Natalegawa, who received a Bachelor of Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1984, also obtained a Master of Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, in 1985.  He received a Doctor of Philosophy from Australia National University in 1993.

Mr. Natalegawa is married and has three children.

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