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Ambassador Gerhard Pfanzelter Photo: Hopi-Media
Gerhard Pfanzelter, the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary General Kofi Annan on 7 September 1999. He served as Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in 2000 and as Vice-President of the 57th United Nations General Assembly in 2002. From 1 January until 30 June 2006 he chaired the European Union in New York during Austria's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Pfanzelter served as Head of the Department for International Organizations at Austria’s Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He had occupied that position since 1993, when he finished a four-year term as Austria’s Ambassador to Syria. Before that -- from 1983 to 1989 -- he was his country’s Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea and Mauritania.
Mr. Pfanzelter’s diplomatic career began in 1969 in the Cabinet of the Foreign Minister of Austria. In 1972, he was appointed First Secretary at the Austrian Embassy in Italy, where he stayed until 1975. From 1975 to 1979, he worked as Counsellor and Deputy at the Austrian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Upon his return to Austria in 1979, he took the position of Deputy Director of the United Nations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head of Policy Coordination Unit. He remained at that post until 1983.
Mr. Pfanzelter received his law degree at the University of Innsbruck in 1966. In 1965, he also studied international law at the University of Strasbourg, France. Later, he attended the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, and in 1968 he received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Born in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1943, Mr. Pfanzelter is married and has three children.
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DR. Ruhakana Rugunda (Photo: www.modul.ac.at/pgm/mba)
H.E. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, 61, is the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations. Prior to his appointment as Permanent Representative in January 2009, a position he holds at Ministerial level, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda was the Minister of Internal Affairs (2003-2009). H e has extensive and varied experience in government and public service having held several portfolios as Minister of Water and Environment (2001-2003), Minister for Presidency (1998-2001), Minister of Information (1996-1998), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994-1996), Minister of Works, Transport and Communications (1988-1994), and Minister of Health (1986-1988), among others. From 1989 to 2001 he represented Kabale Municipality as a Member of Parliament. During his tenure as Minister of Water and Environment, he was elected President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and President of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda led the Government of Uganda delegation to the Juba-based Peace Talks between the Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from July 2006 to January 2009. He attended Kigezi High school and Busoga College Mwiri, before joining Makerere University and later the University of Zambia where he graduated as a Medical Doctor in 1975. He also holds a Masters Degree in Public Health specializing in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California, Berkeley, USA (1978). He also studied Pediatrics at the University of Nairobi (1982-1984). He started his Medical career in Zambia as a Physician, worked at Washington DC General Hospital as a resident physician, and at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. He was keenly involved in student activities and held responsibilities as President of African Students Union, University of California, Berkeley (1977-1978); President of National Union of Students of Uganda (1970-1971) while at Makerere University, and President, Kigezi United Youth Association (KUYA). His publications include: Health Services in Namibia (United Nations Institute for Namibia (Lusaka, 1977); Maternal and Child Health in Namibia (Dissertation for MPH degree, University of California, Berkeley, 1978); Family Planning in Uganda (Pathfinder Fund Publication, 1980); Neonatal Asphyxia at Kenyatta Hospital, Nairobi (Dissertation for Master of Medicine in Pediatrics, University of Nairobi, 1984); and Rebuilding the Health services in Uganda (UNICEF 1988). Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda is married to Joselyn with four children. His hobbies include: reading, farming, tennis and chess.
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