AMBASSADOR RAYMOND Wolfe has been named Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York.
A career diplomat and currently undersecretary for multilateral affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Ambassador Wolfe is expected to assume office in May 2006. He will succeed Ambassador Stafford Neil, who is retiring from the Foreign Service.
Prior to his appointment as undersecretary, Ambassador Wolfe was High Commissioner to Canada from July 1998 to February 2003. He has also served in Jamaica's Mission to the United Nations as minister/counsellor with responsibility for the U.N. General Assembly with previous overseas assignments at Jamaican Missions in the Dominican Republic, Russia, Nigeria and Tokyo, in addition to holding a variety of posts at the ministry, which he joined in May 1974.
The ambassador is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. He is married, with two children.
