Jenö Staehelin (born 14 January 1940) is a Swiss

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and lawyer. He was the first Swiss Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2004, and president of the

UNICEF UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid t ...

Executive Board at the international level in 2003. He was Vice President of the

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in Munich from 1977 to 1984. He was the Swiss Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1997. Staehelin studied at the

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in Geneva, a LLM from

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, and a doctor of law from

University of Bern The University of Bern (german: Universität Bern, french: Université de Berne, la, Universitas Bernensis) is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It is a compreh ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Staehelin, Jeno Ambassadors of Switzerland to Japan Chairmen and Presidents of UNICEF Permanent Representatives of Switzerland to the United Nations 1940 births Living people Swiss officials of the United Nations Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni Harvard Law School alumni University of Bern alumni