New Guyana Permanent Rep presents credentials to Director-General of UN Office in Geneva

The United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland said on Wednesday that the new Permanent Representative of Guyana, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has presented his credentials to the Director-General Tatiana Valovaya.

The UN Office said that prior to his appointment, Dr. Ramsammy served as an advisor to the Minister of Health of Guyana, and concurrently served as chair of the Presidential Commission on Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Disease since 2020.

Dr. Ramsammy also served as chair of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation since 2022.  

In addition, the UN Office in Geneva said Dr. Ramsammy was Minister of Agriculture of Guyana from 2011 to 2015 and Minister of Health from 2001 to 2011. 

“Mr. Ramsammy has extensive experience in the field of public health,” said the UN Office, stating that he served as chairman of the Executive Board of 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.  

The UN Office in Geneva said Ramsammy served as chairman of the Global Fund for Affordable Medicines for Malaria between 2010 and 2011, and as president of the World Health Organization’s 61st World Assembly (2008-2009). 

Ramsammy has a Ph. D degree from St. John’s University in Queens, New York (1982), a master’s degree from the same University (1979), and a bachelor’s degree from Pace University in New York (1977).  

The UN Office in Geneva said Dr. Ramsammy was Menschel Fellow at the prestigious Harvard School of Public Health, in Massachusetts, in 2015.