New Permanent Representative of Malawi Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
Ambumulire Nellie Itimu Phiri, the new Permanent Representative of Malawi to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Itimu Phiri had been serving as Chief Executive Officer of the National Council for Higher Education of Malawi since March 2023. Within the Council, she has also served as Acting Chief Executive Officer (2021-2022) and Deputy Director for Standards and Quality Audits (2019-2022).
Ms. Itimu Phiri has held several leadership positions within the higher education sector in Malawi, including Chief of Party of Michigan State University’s Malawi-based “Transforming Higher Education Systems Project” (2022-2023), and senior lecturer in inclusive education at Mzuzu University (2003-2019), including concurrently serving as Deputy Dean of Education (2014-2016). She was also a Founding Principal of the Nalikule College of Education and served there as College Principal (2016-2019).
Ms. Itimu Phiri holds a Doctor of Philosophy in education (2014) and a graduate certificate in autism studies (2012) from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States; a Master of Arts in teaching from Belhaven University, United States (2002); and a Bachelor of Arts in biblical studies, with emphasis in education, from African Bible College, Malawi (1999). Ms. Itimu Phiri’s native language is Chichewa and she speaks English proficiently. Born in 1977 in the Balaka township of Malawi, she is married and has two boys.
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