appointed Guyana’s Permanent Representative

LESLIE Ramsammy, a distinguished figure in public health and governance, has been appointed as the new Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations (UN) Office at Geneva.
On Wednesday, Ramsammy presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Ramsammy brings a wealth of experience to his new role. Prior to this appointment, he served as an Adviser to the Minister of Health of Guyana and concurrently held the positions of Chair of the Presidential Commission on Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases since 2020 and Chair of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation since 2022.

His political career includes serving as Guyana’s Minister of Agriculture from 2011 to 2015 and Minister of Health from 2001 to 2011.
With an extensive background in public health, Ramsammy has held several prominent positions, including Chairman of the Executive Board of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS, Chairman of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Human and Social Development, and Chairman of the Caribbean Public Health Agency.

He also served as Chairman of the Global Fund for Affordable Medicines for Malaria from 2010 to 2011 and as President of the World Health Organization’s sixty-first World Assembly from 2008 to 2009.
Ramsammy’s academic credentials are equally impressive. He holds a PhD (1982) and a master’s degree (1979) from St. John’s University in New York, and a bachelor’s degree from Pace University in New York (1977). Additionally, he was a Menschel Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2015.

Leslie Ramsammy’s extensive experience and academic background position him well to represent Guyana on the global stage at the United Nations Office at Geneva.