Ian "Patches" McDonald Liburd (born 1952) is a former politician, ambassador, and civil servant from

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Early life and career

Liburd was born in 1952. He has an

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from the

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Management School, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies from the

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, holds a membership of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI).

Political career

In the 2015 general election, Liburd was elected to the

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as a

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(PAM) Member of Parliament for the

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#1 constituency. Following the election in which PAM and its allies in the

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alliance successfully won a majority, Liburd was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister for Public Infrastructure, Post Urban Development, and Transport. He was not re-elected at the 2020 general election. In 2021, Liburd was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the

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in New York, succeeding

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. He was succeeded by Nerys Dockery as UN permanent representative in October 2022.

References

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