Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Appoints Sunaina Lowe of Jamaica Director of United Nations Information Centre in Jakarta

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Sunaina Lowe of Jamaica as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Jakarta, an office that provides service to Indonesia.  She assumes her duties on 23 May.

Ms. Lowe is currently the Coordination Officer in the Policy, Evaluation and Training Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations since 2014.  Previously, she served as State Coordinator for Lakes State with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) from 2012 to 2013.

With more than 35 years of experience in public information, communications and international relations acquired at the United Nations and externally, Ms. Lowe has held progressively responsible positions since joining the Department of Public Information as a Press Officer in 1984.  She has served the Department of Peacekeeping Operations both at Headquarters and in the field, including as Head of Civil Affairs with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), between 2010 and 2012; United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP), from 1998 to 1999; United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL), from 1995 to 1996; and the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA) in 1994.

Ms. Lowe worked as an Associate Writer for The Christian Science Monitor in 1984, based in the United States.  She was a Senior Sub-editor for Imprint magazine, in India, from 1982 to 1983, and a staff writer for Bombay magazine from 1980 to 1982.

She has a master’s degree in international law and diplomacy from Tufts University in the United States, a post-graduate diploma in social communications media from the University of Mumbai, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Madras, both in India.

Ms. Lowe has one child.