Walton Alfonso Webson
Antiguan diplomat
Walton Alfonso Webson | |
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| Permanent Representative from Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 17 December 2014 | |
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| Education | The New School (BS, MS) Case Western Reserve University (PhD) |
Walton Alfonso Webson is an Antiguan diplomat. He has served as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York of Antigua and Barbuda since 2014.[1][2] He was President of the UNICEF Executive Board at the international level in 2017.[3]
Biography
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science in management of non-profit organizations from The New School for Social Research and a PhD in management from Case Western Reserve University. He worked for Perkins International from 1992 to 2014, and was the organization's Director from 2011.[4]
He has also served as Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) from 2021 to 2022.[5][6]
Reference
- ^ New Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda Presents Credentials, United Nations
- ^ Dr Webson officially appointed A&B’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Antigua Observer
- ^ UNICEF Executive Board, UNICEF
- ^ "His Excellency Walton Alfonso Webson". washdiplomat.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ "About Us – AOSIS". Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ^ Antigua News Room (2022-12-17). "AOSIS Chair welcomes newly launched principles to accelerate Sustainable Development efforts in SIDS". Antigua Breaking News. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
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Chairperson and Presidents of UNICEF
- Ludwik Rajchman (1946–50)
- Adelaide Sinclair (1951–52)
- August R. Lindt (1953– 54)
- Balachandra Rajan (1955–56)
- Mahmood Shafqat (1957–58)
- John Ryan (1959)
- Felix Schnyder (1960)
- W. A. E. Green (1961)
- Miguel E. Bustamente (1962–63)
- Zina Harman (1964–66)
- Joseph W. Willard (1966–68)
- İhsan Doğramacı (1968–70)
- Nils Thedin (1970–72)
- Narciso G. Reyes (1972–74)
- Hans Conzett (1974–76)
- Antonio Ordoñez-Plaja (1976–77)
- Ferdinand Oyono (1977–78)
- Sadako Ogata (1978–79)
- Zaki Hasan (1979–80)
- Paal Bog (1980–81)
- Dragan Matelijak (1981–82)
- Hugo Scheltema (1982–83)
- Haydée Martínez de Osorio (1983–84)
- Richard C. Manning (1984–85)
- Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (1985–86)
- Maurizio Bucci (1986–87)
- A.P. Maruping (1987–88)
- Makoto Taniguchi (1988)
- Torild Skard (1988–89)
- Margarita Diéguez (1989–90)
- Lisbeth Palme (1990–91)
- Mira Seth (1991–92)
- Frederick Ward (1992–93)
- Anne Makinda (1993–94)
- Anne Makinda (1994)
- Khalil Makkawi (1995)
- Ion Goriță (1996)
- Mercedes Pulido (1997)
- Michael Powles (1998)
- Ibrahim Gambari (1999)
- Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (2000)
- Movses Abelian (2001)
- Andrés Franco (2002)
- Jenö Staehelin (2003)
- Lebohang K. Moleko (2004)
- Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (2005)
- Andrei Dapkiunas (2006)
- Javier Loayza (2007)
- Anders Lidén (2008)
- Oumar Daou (2009)
- AK Abdul Momen (2010)
- Sanja Štiglic (2011)
- John W. Ashe (2012)
- Jarmo Viinanen (2013)
- Macharia Kamau (2014)
- Maleeha Lodhi (2015)
- Sven Jürgenson (2016)
- Walton Alfonso Webson (2017)
- Tore Hattrem (2018)
- Omer Dahab Fadl Mohamed (2019)
- Rabab Fatima (2020)
- Rytis Paulauskas (2021)
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