Courtenay Rattray of Jamaica Chair of First Committee

Courtenay Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on 18 June.  (See Press Release GA/11525.)

Mr. Rattray has served as his country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations since June 2013.  When appointed, he had been serving as Ambassador to China since 2008.  From 2005 to 2008, he was Director of the Bilateral Relations Department in the Ministry of Industry and Investment, in Kingston.  Before that he was Deputy Chief of Jamaica’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., between 2001 and 2005.

Mr. Rattray holds a Master of Science in international business from South Bank University in London, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from West Virginia Wesleyan College, and is currently pursuing Master of Arts studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States.

Born on 21 October 1959, in London, Mr. Rattray is married and has four children.

*     This supersedes Press Release BIO/4485 of 25 June 2013.