Biographical Note

New Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire Presents Credentials

 

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

The new Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations, Youssoufou Bamba, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Prior to his new appointment, Mr. Bamba served, from January 2007, as his country’s Ambassador to Austria, as well as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna and to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mr. Bamba was Ambassador to the United Kingdom between October 2001 and January 2007, and Ambassador to the United States from August 2000 to October 2001, having previously served as Minister for International Cooperation from August 1998 to December 1999.

His diplomatic service also included a previous term as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, between October 1996 and August 1998.  While concurrently serving as Ambassador to Japan and the Republic of Korea, resident in Tokyo, from June 1994 to October 1996, he carried out the duties of Chef de Cabinet to the President of the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly, from September 1994 to September 1995.

Mr. Bamba was Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in that country’s capital, Addis Ababa, from August 1993 to June 1994.  He served as an Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs from January 1991 to August 1993 and Assistant Director for Multilateral Cooperation from November 1988 to January 1991, after joining his country’s Permanent Mission in New York for the first time, as Counsellor, between August 1983 and November 1988.

Having joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976 as a junior staff member in charge of the budget, he rose through the ranks to become Assistant Budget Director (1977-1978) and Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978-1980), before his first overseas posting, as Counsellor at Côte d’Ivoire’s Embassy in Canada (June 1980 to August 1983).

Mr. Bamba was educated at the University of Abidjan, from where he graduated with a master’s degree in economics, and the Institut International d’Administration Publique in Paris, where he earned a diploma, diplomatic section.

He was born on 31 December 1949 in Abidjan.

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