Eunice M. Tembo Luambia, the new Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Ms. Luambia had been Director of the Zambia Mine Action Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Zambia since September 2011 before being appointed to Geneva.
From August 2007 to September 2011, she served as the Zambian High Commission’s Deputy High Commissioner and Head of Chancery, sitting as the High Commissioner from July to October 2009.
She also held the position of acting High Commissioner from September to December 2002 while working as the First Secretary for political affairs at the Zambian High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, from August 2002 to August 2007.
Ms. Luambia, a career diplomat, worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2002 as a senior executive officer/desk officer in responsibility of Africa, the Organization of African Unity, the African Union, and the Middle East.
From December 1993 until 1996, she served as an executive officer/desk officer in charge of Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
Ms. Luambia has a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, United Kingdom (1989), a university diploma in politics and international relations from the University of Kent (1988), a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia, and a postgraduate diploma in diplomacy and international studies from the Zambia Institute for Diplomatic Studies in Lusaka, Zambia (1993). (1986).