Michel Tommo Monthe

Infobox Officeholder
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name =Michel Tommo Monthe
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birth_date =Birth date and age|1947|3|26|df=yes
birth_place =Bana, Cameroon

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office =Permanent Representative to the UN for Cameroon
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term_start =8 September 2008
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predecessor =Martin Belinga Eboutou
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Michel Tommo Monthe (born 26 March 1947 in Bana, Cameroon) is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, for Cameroon. He took office 8 September 2008. Monthe is married and has six children.

Education

Monthe obtained bachelor of arts and masters of arts degrees at the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. He also has a doctorate in international relations from the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, University of Yaoundé II.

Career

Monthe was the Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) before taking office at the United Nations. His other diplomatic postings included Special Adviser to the President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly; Inspector General in Cameroon’s Ministry of External Relations; Chair of the Anti-Corruption Unit in the Ministry; Ministry Secretary-General; Chargé de Mission in the Diplomatic Division of the General Secretariat at the Presidency; Technical Adviser in the Ministry of External Relations; and responsibity for consular affairs in the Protocol Department.

From 1977 to 1989, he served a prior term in New York. This term included postings as Second Secretary, First Secretary, Second Counselor and First Counselor for Cameroon's Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

ee also

*List of Permanent Representatives to the UN

References

* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/bio4018.doc.htm United Nation Press Release Presentation of Credentials: Monthe]