New Permanent Representative of Senegal Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Aboubacar Sadikh Barry, the new Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Barry had been serving as Senegal’s Ambassador to Ghana since 2018.

Mr. Barry served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2013 to 2016.  He served as Second, then First Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Senegal to the United Nations in New York from 2004 to 2010.  He was Head of the United Nations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Senegal from 2001 to 2004.

Other high-level positions he has held within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs include Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Senegal in Washington D.C., United States, from 2016 to 2018; and Director of Consular Affairs from 2011 to 2013. 

Mr. Barry has a certificate degree in diplomacy from the Senegal National School of Administration and a master’s degree in economics and management from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where he also obtained a bachelor’s degree in economic sciences.  He is married with five children.

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