Mr Johan Verbeke
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Georgia
Mr. Verbeke is a career diplomat. He joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981 and has been posted in the Middle East (Lebanon and Jordan), Central Africa (Burundi) and South America (Chile as Chargé d’Affares). He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington DC from 1994 to 1998. In his last posting in Brussels, he served as Chef de Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Since September 2004, he has been the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the UN (New York). In this capacity, he has, from 1 January 2007 served on the Security Council as well as on the Peace Building Commission.
During his career, he has carried out a number of assignments for Belgium including Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to NEPAD (2002-2005), Personal Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counter-Terrorism (2003), Facilitator of the President of the General Assembly for the negotiation of GA-resolutions on MDG-implementation and ECOSOC- reform (2005-2006), Leader of the Security Council Mission to Kosovo (April 2007).
Following law studies in Belgium, Mr. Verbeke obtained a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Européennes (D.E.S.), Université de Nancy, 1975 and a Master of Laws (LL.M.), Law School, Yale University, 1978.
Mr. Verbeke was the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon from 1 June 2008 to 1 October 2008 on which date he became Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Georgia.
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