William L. Swing
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
William Lacy Swing (born September 11, 1934 in Lexington, North Carolina) is the Director General of the International Organization for Migration. He is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador, and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Under Secretary General.
Contents
Education
Swing graduated from Catawba College in North Carolina (Bachelor of Arts). He received his Bachelor of Divinity from Yale University. He did post-graduate studies at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He was a Fellow at Harvard University from 1976 to 1977.
He holds an honorary degree from Hofstra University (Doctor of Humane Letters), and is an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
He speaks fluent French and German.
Ambassadorial posts
- United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of the Congo (1979–81) (People's Republic of the Congo)
- United States Ambassador to Liberia (1981–85)
- United States Ambassador to South Africa (1989–92)
- United States Ambassador to Nigeria (1992–93)
- United States Ambassador to Haiti (1993–98)
- United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1998–2001)
United Nations
Western Sahara
Swing served as UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Western Sahara from 2001–2003. He was Chief of Mission for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Swing then successfully led all facets of the largest UN peacekeeping operation in history in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (May 2003 - January 2008).[1] He was appointed as Special Representative of the Secretary General to the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), with the rank of Under Secretary General. MONUC, now known as MONUSCO (United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), is the UN’s largest peace operation. The Mission is engaged in the peace process and providing security support to the country as it seeks to end armed conflict in the war torn eastern part of the Congo.[2]
International Organization for Migration
In June 2008 he was elected Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).[3]
Awards
He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. In 2012, he received the American Foreign Service Association’s Award for Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy.
See also
Notes
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. |
External links
- Use American English from May 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in American English
- Use mdy dates from May 2015
- 1934 births
- 20th-century American politicians
- 20th-century American diplomats
- 21st-century American diplomats
- 21st-century United States government officials
- Ambassadors of the United States to Haiti
- Ambassadors of the United States to Liberia
- Ambassadors of the United States to Nigeria
- Ambassadors of the United States to South Africa
- Ambassadors of the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ambassadors of the United States to the Republic of the Congo
- American expatriates in Germany
- Catawba College alumni
- Expatriates in Western Sahara
- Harvard Fellows
- Living people
- People from Lexington, North Carolina
- Politics of Western Sahara
- Yale University alumni
- United Nations peacekeeping
- United Nations Under-Secretaries-General
- University of Tübingen alumni