Event class: appointed, ambassador, united nations, served, became, representative, special, president, office, united states

Events with high posterior probability

David C. Fields	On October 16th, 1986, Fields was appointed as the United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic, and presented his credentials to Central African president André Kolingba on December 4, 1986.
Tom Hockin	On November 30, 2009, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty nominated Hockin to become the Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) representing Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean.
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber	During Austria's Membership in the United Nations Security Council (2008 -- 10), Danspeckgruber served as adviser to its Permanent Mission.
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber	Since 2003, Danspeckgruber has advised the Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the United Nations in New York and has worked with Ambassador Christian Wenaweser.
David C. Fields	On July 22, 1992, Fields left that position upon his appointment as United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands on July 7, 1992.
Jean-Pierre Blackburn	He was named Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO in December 2011.
Douglas Young (lawyer)	In 1998 Young returned to the Balkans for elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and again as a member of the United Kingdom Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission, subsequently merged in the Kosovo Verification Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Ahmad Allam-Mi	He was then appointed as Chad's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, presenting his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 8 September 2008.
Zvi Mazel	In 1992 he was appoined Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry in charge of African affairs and was instrumental in reestablishing diplomatic relations between Israel and 19 African countries.
Anna Der-Vartanian	Anna Der-Vartanian joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1964 as a junior analyst, later becoming a counterintelligence specialist and received assignments in Paris, France ; Bonn, Germany ; and Madrid, Spain.
Milton Fowler Gregg	Defeated in the 1957 election, Gregg went on to become the United Nations representative in Iraq, the UNICEF administrator in Indonesia, and the Canadian High Commissioner in Georgetown, British Guiana.
Linda Chavez	In 1992, Chavez was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U. S. Expert to the U. N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
Anand Panyarachun	In January 1976 he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the foreign ministry, and played a leading role in ensuring the US military withdrawal from Thailand.
Rick Barton (diplomat)	Barton attained the rank of ambassador in 2009, when President Obama named him the U. S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), working on development, peacebuilding, climate change, and human rights with Ambassador Susan Rice.
Harry W. Shlaudeman	In 1965, he became Assistant Director of the State Department's Office of Caribbean Affairs, and also served as an advisor to Ellsworth Bunker, the United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States.
Ross Mountain	Ross Stewart Mountain (born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1944) has spent most of his career in the service of the United Nations working on humanitarian, recovery, development and peacekeeping operations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as well as assignments based in Geneva, Switzerland promoting non governmental action and managing UN humanitarian operations.
Marc Garlasco	In early 2012, as the U. N. senior military advisor for the Human Rights Council's (HRC) Independent Commission of Inquiry on Libya, he investigated civilian casualties while leading a survey of NATO's activities in Libya.
Vann Molyvann	He worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme for 10 years before eventually returning to Cambodia in 1991 where he served as President of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Culture, Fine Arts, Town and Country Planning.
Jamal Benomar	He joined the United Nations system in 1994, serving various UN entities, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA).
Vlade Divac	On October 16, 2008, Divac was appointed a government adviser in Serbia for humanitarian issues.
Keith William MacLellan	He subsequently reapplied to rejoin External Affairs, where after a time of wearing'' sackcloth and ashes'' in Ottawa, he was posted as Ambassador to first Jordan and then to Syria before formally retiring in 1985.
Robert Piper	In 1990, he joined the United Nations, working with the United Nations Population Fund in Thailand, then the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Cambodia and Fiji.
Benon Sevan	In April 1988 he was appointed director and senior political advisor to the Secretary-General's representative on the Afghan conflict.
William Phillips (diplomat)	In 1943, he was made as a Special Advisor on European political matters to then - General Dwight D. Eisenhower, with the rank of Ambassador.
Alexander Comstock Kirk	Kirk was appointed U. S. representative on the Allied Advisory Council for Italy, with the rank of ambassador, on April 4, 1944.
Anastase Gasana	After the Rwandan Patriotic Front under Paul Kagame had taken over the country following the Rwandan genocide, Gasana was appointed as Ambassador in Washington, USA, but did not take office as of November 1994, he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs again.
Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet	In 1965 he was appointed Ambassador to Thailand ; while he was there he was also UK representative on the Council of SEATO.
Donald Rumsfeld	In February 1973, Rumsfeld left Washington to serve as U. S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium.
Aleksi Petriashvili	In 1998 Alex Petriashvili worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia as the Head of Bilateral Relations' Division, Politico-Military Department, where he was establishing and facilitating the improvement of bilateral political and political-military relations bilaterally as well as preparing Security Dialogue with US interagency delegation.
Choi Young-jin	He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in October 2007, as successor of Pierre Schori from Sweden.
Maurice Halperin	After the OSS was dissolved in 1945, Halperin transferred to the State Department and worked as an adviser to United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson on Latin American affairs.
Peter van Uhm	In 1991 van Uhm spent some time working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a liaison officer, aiding in the preparation of the European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM).
Luigi R. Einaudi	He assumed the post of Acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in October 2004 upon the resignation of Secretary General Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.
Luigi Poggi	In 1965 he became papal nuncio to Central Africa (which comprises the modern states of Cameroon, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, and the Central African Republic).
Claude Rijmenans	In 1986, he became Deputy Secretary General of the Benelux Economic Union, based in Brussels.
Braj Kumar Nehru	He also served as a diplomat, as ambassador to several countries and was offered the post of secretary-general of the United Nations in 1951, but declined.
Gabriel Keller	Keller was appointed Ambassador Chief of the European Union Observation Mission in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia in 2000.
Jethro Mutti	In 1967 he was appointed ambassador to Ethiopia.
Datu Yusoph Boyog Mama	He was also designated as an Economic Adviser in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the United Nations Center in Vienna, Austria (1981).
Richard Holbrooke	In 2000, Holbrooke led a UN Security Council delegation in a series of diplomatic negotiations throughout Africa, including to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Uganda.
James Chau	He sat down with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during the 2010 UN General Assembly, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, U. S. Assistant Secretary for Health Howard Koh, and First Lady of Georgia Sandra Saakashvili.
David M. Malone	Malone was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo on 3 Oct 2012.
Vaughan Lewis	Lewis, a former director of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, assumed the office of Prime Minister on April 2, 1996.
Amanda Labarca	She was appointed ambassador in 1946, by the government of President Gabriel González Videla, as the representative of Chile to the United Nations and head of the Status of Women section.
Garry Conille	In the wake of Haiti's 2010 earthquake, he was requested by the Administrator of UNDP and the UN Secretary General to assume the duties of head office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Haiti.
Jason Stearns	In 2008 Stearns was named by the UN Secretary General to lead a special UN investigation into the violence in the country.
Robert Piper	In March 2013, he was appointed Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, supporting humanitarian work across the nine countries of the region (Senegal, The Gambia, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania, Northern Nigeria, Northern Cameroon and Mali).
Catherine Ashton	In December 2009, she became the first person to take on the role of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy that was created by the Treaty of Lisbon.
Donald Kalpokas	In November 2007, he was appointed as Vanuatu's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Liudmyla Skyrda	In 1988 Liudmyla Skyrda went to Vienna, where her husband -- Ukrainian diplomat Yurii Kostenko hold rank of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to International Organizations, soon he became the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of independent Ukraine in the Republic of Austria.
Luciano Suriani	He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 June 1990, and worked in the papal diplomatic missions to Ivory Coast, Switzerland, the Section for Relations with States at the Secretariat of State, and the Nunciature to Italy, by which time he held the rank of counselor.
Adamantios Vassilakis	In 1977, he moved to the Foreign Ministry's First Department of Political Affairs, serving as Head of Section for the U. S. S. R. and Eastern Europe, as a member of various Greek delegations visiting Eastern European countries, and as a participant in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Common Market political experts meetings.
Salvador de Madariaga	In 1931 he was appointed ambassador to the United States of America and a permanent delegate to the League of Nations, a post he kept for 5 years.
Mazlan Othman	Mazlan was reappointed as UNOOSA director in 2007 by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and left Angkasa to return to the post that December.
Hubert J. Charles	He was appointed Ambassador to the U. S. as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States in June 2010.
Rakhat Aliyev	On 9 February 2007 President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Aliyev as Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Austria and Permanent Representative to the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) and other international organizations in Vienna.
Yuval Rotem	Rotem was first selected for an overseas posting in 1989, where he served as Chief Spokesman for Israel's Permanent Mission to the United Nations and also for the Consulate General of Israel in New York.
Denis Paradis	Paradis nominated former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to be named to the Order of Canada in 2002.
Jane Dee Hull	After leaving office, she spent three months in New York City, as a public delegate from the United States to the United Nations General Assembly (2004).
Ron Prosor	Ambassador Prosor became Israel's 16th Permanent Representative to the United Nations in June 2011, after being appointed in February 2011.
Catherine Ashton	On 3 October 2008, Ashton was nominated to replace Peter Mandelson as the UK's European Commissioner in Brussels.
Daniel Fried	until early 2009, Fried served as the top U. S. diplomat responsible for Europe, with the official title Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
Thomas J. Miller (diplomat)	He served in several positions worldwide since joining the United States Foreign Service in 1976, including Director of the Office of Israel and Arab-Israel Affirs and Director of the Office of North African Affairs as well as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Chief of Staff to the President's Middle East Envoy, and office director in the Office of Counterterrorism.
Justin Koumba	The transitional period ended later in 1992 ; Koumba then returned to the UN and became UNESCO's representative for Central Africa and the Great Lakes countries.
Digger Phelps	After retiring from Notre Dame he briefly worked for the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the administration of George H. W. Bush and also served as an observer in the 1993 elections in Cambodia.
James Plimsoll	In 1970, Plimsoll was appointed as Ambassador to the United States of America, a job normally reserved in Australia for senior ex-politicians.
Don Cheadle	In 2010, Cheadle was appointed,'' U. N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador.''
Ibrahima Fall (politician)	In 2002 the United Nations named Fall Special Representative to the Great Lakes Region of Africa and Undersecretary General of Political Affairs.
John Holmes (British diplomat)	He returned to London in 1995, first as Head of the European Union Department in FCO and then as Private Secretary, and subsequently Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
David M. Satterfield	Upon nomination by the U. S. government he was then appointed Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO), an independent international organization, by the Arab Republic of Egypt and State of Israel, and assumed office on July 1, 2009.
Asadata Dafora	In 1960, Asadata Dafora returned to Sierra Leone where he became the cultural director of the newly independent nation.
Mongi Slim	He relinquished his posts as ambassador to the United States and Canada in 1961 when he was unanimously elected president of the United Nations General Assembly after a plane crash that killed U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld.
Francis Hagerup	Following his two bouts as Prime Minister, he entered the diplomacy in 1906, as ambassador to Copenhagen, The Hague, and Brussels.
Ernest Vardanean	Ernest Vardanean and Ilie Cazac were visited on August 4, 2010 in jail by the head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's mission to Moldova, Philip Remmler.
Iyad bin Amin Madani	In November 2012, Saudi Arabia nominated Madani to the post of secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the 39th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of OIC member states in Djibouti.
Princess Ghida	In 2011 Abdullah II appointed Princess Ghida to represent Jordan as his special envoy to the United Nations General Assembly's High Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which was held in New York in September of that year.
Dora Bakoyannis	As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bakoyannis assumed the rotating Greek presidency of the United Nations Security Council in September 2006, while at a time of international tensions over nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea and amidst a fragile United Nations brokered cease-fire in Lebanon.
John Sherman Cooper	He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1948, after which he accepted an appointment by President Harry S. Truman as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and served as a special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson during the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Renate Weber	Subsequently, she was appointed - by the European Commission - as Chief of the EU Election Observation Mission for the January 25, 2009 Constitutional Referendum in Bolivia and she was also Chief Observer for the EU EOM deployed for the presidential and legislative elections that took place in Bolivia on December 6, 2009.
Bo Lidegaard	He served at Danish representations in Geneva and Paris, before leaving the foreign service in 2000.
Jos? Miguel Insulza	Insulza was elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States on May 2, 2005 following the withdrawal from the race of Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez.
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet	After two years as Permanent Representative to the African Union, Issoze-Ngondet was sent to New York City as Permanent Representative to the United Nations, presenting his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 25 August 2008.
Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid	In 1968 she was appointed by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations serving under then ambassador Julio César Turbay Ayala.
Hans-Peter Kaul	In 1990, back in Bonn, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Division for Near Eastern Affairs at the Federal Foreign Office.
Fambar? Ouattara Natchaba	Later in 2005, President Gnassingbé designated Natchaba as his special envoy to the European Parliament and the European Commission.
Morten Wetland	In late February 2008 he was appointed as Norway's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Charles A. Ray	President George W. Bush appointed Ray Ambassador to Cambodia in November 2002.
Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin	In June 2013 he was appointed Head of the European Union Delegation to Afghanistan and European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Edward W. Mulcahy	In 1963 he worked at the Bureau of the Near East and Africa Affairs with responsibility for Southern Africa at the State Department.
Mich?le Renouf	In January 2010, Renouf participated in a conference on the U. N. Security Council at the British House of Lords, which included former British ambassador Oliver Miles.
Sherwood Lett	In 1954, he became the head of the Canadian group on the International Control Commission, the international force established in 1954 that oversaw the implementation of the Geneva Accords that ended the First Indochina War with the Partition of Vietnam.
Walter Woon	He then served as Ambassador to Belgium (from 22 August 2003) Luxembourg and the Holy See.
Seth Obeng	President Kufuor appointed Seth Obeng as one of his Special advisers on the African Union matters in May 2007.
Ban Ki-moon	In 1980 Ban became director of the United Nations' International Organizations and Treaties Bureau, headquartered in Seoul.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh	On April 4, 2007, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon appointed Abu-Ghazaleh, as deputy chairman of the UN Global Compact during its second meeting held at the UN headquarters in New York.
Beatrice Faumuina	On 16 October 2005, Beatrice Faumuina was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Munir Akram	In 2002, Munir Akram was appointed as Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations.
Adriano Bernardini	He was next appointed Nuncio to Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia and Apostolic Delegate to Burma, Laos, Malaysia and Brunei on 24 July 1999.
Romano Prodi	On 12 September 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon selected Prodi as president of the African Union - UN peacekeeping panel.
Parker T. Hart	Later in 1958, he returned to the U. S. to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asian Affairs.