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Johan Verbeke (born 9 July 1951) is a Belgian diplomat, the former Belgian Ambassador to the United States until 2016.


Early life

Verbeke holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the
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and a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Européennes (D.E.S.) from the Université de Nancy.


Career

Verbeke joined the
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in 1981 and has served in various capacities for his country's foreign service, including as Chairman of the Security Council Sanctions Committees on Côte d'Ivoire,
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and Al Qaida/Taliban, leader of the Security Council Mission to Kosovo (April 2007), Facilitator of the President of the General Assembly for the negotiation of General Assembly-resolutions on
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-implementation and Economic and Social Council-reform (2005–2006), Personal Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counter-Terrorism (2003), Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to the
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(NEPAD) (2002–2005). Verbeke worked in the Ministry as the Deputy Director General for Political Affairs and as the Deputy Chief of Mission in
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Since then, he was the
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of the
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. Verbeke was the permanent representative of
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to the
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and to its
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. He was briefly the UN special coordinator for
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, serving as the
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's representative in Lebanon. When he served as Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations, he presented his credentials to the
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on 16 September 2004. Later, Verbeke was the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (
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) in 2008–09. From 2010 until 2014, Verbeke was the Belgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom. From 2014 to 2015, Johan Verbeke was the Belgian Ambassador to the United States in
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Afterwards, he became the director general of the think tank Egmont Institute.


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External links


The United Nations list of current heads of missions (PDF)The biography of Johan Verbeke at the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United NationsCV Ambassador Johan Verbeke
1951 births Living people Yale Law School alumni Nancy-Université alumni Belgian diplomats Permanent representatives of Belgium to the United Nations Ambassadors of Belgium to the United Kingdom Ambassadors of Belgium to the United States {{Belgium-diplomat-stub