| Ambassador Tiina Intelmann (Estonia) © UN Photo/ Ky Chung |
On 26 July 2011, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties decided to recommend that Ambassador Tiina Intelmann be elected President of the Assembly of States Parties at the beginning of the tenth session of the Assembly which will be held from 12 to 21 December 2011 in New York. She would hold the presidency from the tenth to the twelfth session.
Ambassador Intelmann has a broad professional experience in international matters and relations and has previously served as the Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations as well as to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Ambassador Intelmann has been working on issues related to the United Nations for over ten years, most recently successfully co-facilitating the negotiations on the system-wide coherence reform establishing UN Women. She has previously also led negotiations on humanitarian affairs at the UN.
Ambassador Intelmann has a Master of Arts in Italian language and literature from Leningrad State University in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Press Release - Estonian Foreign Ministry
28 July 2011 - English | Estonian
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