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JAMAIKA - H.E. Richard Brown
Credentials: 21.01.2025
Born on October 4, 1979
Married, one child
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Pending Ambassador-Designate to the Italian Republic, the Republic of Türkiye and the Hellenic Republic (Greece), Embassy of Jamaica at Geneva
Pending Ambassador/Permanent Representative-Designate to the FAO, IFAD and WFP in Rome, Permanent Mission of Jamaica at Geneva
Effective 21 January 2025 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Austria, Embassy of Jamaica at Geneva
Effective 23 January 2025 Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the UN Office and Other Specialized Agencies at Vienna Permanent Mission of Jamaica at Geneva
Effective 20-21 January 2025 Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the IAEA, CTBTO and UNIDO based in Vienna Permanent Mission of Jamaica at Geneva
Effective 26 March 2024 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation Permanent Mission of Jamaica at Geneva
Effective 8 January 2024 Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and Other Specialized Agencies at Geneva Permanent Mission of Jamaica at Geneva
Effective 10 January 2024 Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization Permanent Mission of Jamaica at Geneva
April – November 2023 Under-Secretary (Acting) Foreign Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT)
July 2021 - April 2023 Senior Director Foreign Trade Department, MFAFT
February 2020 — June 2021 Director of Research, Services Sector Development, Technical and Capacity-Building Support Foreign Trade Division, MFAFT
November 2017 — January 2020 Director, CARICOM Single Market and Sectoral Programmes CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana
February 2016 - March 2017 International Trade Specialist/Director of Trade Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries
March 2014 — January 2016 and April November 2017 Deputy Director, Bilateral and Regional Trade Foreign Trade Department, MFAFT
January 2013 — February 2014 Foreign Service Officer III Foreign Trade Department, MFAFT
2008 – 2013 First Secretary/CounseIIor Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the UN Office and Other Specialized Agencies at Geneva
(2003 - 2007) Foreign Service Officer Il Foreign Trade Department, MFAFT
EDUCATION
2013 PhD in International Economics (Summa Cum Laude) Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 Post Graduate Certificate in Diplomatic Studies University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2003 MSc. Economics University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica
2001 BSc. Economics and Management (double major) University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP ROLES
2018-2019 Board Member, Deputy and Interim Chairman of the Board of Directors The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF)
Member of the CDF's Finance and Investment Committee
2018-2020 Member of the Board of Trustees of the CARICOM Secretariat Pension Scheme CARICOM Secretariat
2018-2020 Member of the CARICOM Secretariat Joint Disciplinary Complaints Committee CARICOM Secretariat
2016 – 2017 Member of the Board of Directors and the Human Resources and Marketing Sub-Committee Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC)
2016 Member of the Board of Directors Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA)
Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Peter Lechner/HBF
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