Draft:Harold Adlai Agyeman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ambassador Harold Adlai Agyeman was born in the mining town of Akwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana to John D. Agyeman and Auntie Felicia.

He lived and schooled in the beautiful and serene environment of the mining camp of the Consolidated African Selection Trust (CAST), which was later renamed as the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited when nationalised by the Gen. I.K. Acheampong government of the NLC in 1972. For his secondary school education, Harold attended Achimota School for his Ordinary Level Certificate and Winneba Secondary School for his Advanced Certificate. He proceeded thereafter to the University of Ghana where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with Philosophy and subsequently followed up with a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from the Legon Centre for International Affairs of the same University.

During his working life, Ambassador Agyeman worked for a short time with KPMG and thereafter devoted his life to public service and diplomacy. He has held many senior management positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Ghana, including as Director of Africa and Regional Integration and as the Director of Administration of the Ministry. He has also served in Ghana's High Commission to India and the Embassy of Ghana in Benin where he served for different durations as Acting High Commissioner and as Chargé d'Affaires a.i. respectively. He previously also served as Ghana's representative to the Sixth (Legal) and Fifth (Administrative and Budgetary) Committees of the United Nations General Assembly and as the Vice-Chair of the Committee for Programme and Coordination. He continues to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Programme of Assistance for the Teaching, Study and Wider Dissemination of International Law. Between the years 2022 - 2023, he also served as the Chair of the United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Committee on the Central African Republic (2127 Committee) and Sudan (1591 Committee). Ambassador Agyeman was the President of the Security Council in November 2022.

Ambassador Harold Adlai Agyeman has three sons, Yaw, Kwame and Kofi.

References[edit]

https://press.un.org/en/2021/bio5395.doc.htm#:~:text=The%20new%20Permanent%20Representative%20of,Ghana%20from%202019%20to%202021.