Name Tehmina Janjua | Role Deputy | |
New foreign secretary tehmina janjua takes charge of office
Tehmina Janjua is a Pakistani career diplomat who serves as the 29th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. Previously, she served as Pakistan's Representative to the United Nation's Geneva and as its ambassador to Italy.
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- New foreign secretary tehmina janjua takes charge of office
- Tehmina Janjua becomes Pakistans first woman foreign secretary
- Career
- References
Tehmina Janjua becomes Pakistan's first woman foreign secretary
Career
Janjua joined Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1984 after studying french literature at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Janjua later received a Masters in International Affairs from the SIPA, Columbia University in 1989. She served in Pakistan's missions to New York City and United Nations before serving as the Director of Foreign Secretary's Office between 2004 and 2005. She served as the Director General of Strategic Planning in the Foreign Secretary's Office and in 2011 became Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. She served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to Italy between December 2011 and October 2015.
On 6 October 2015, Janjua became Pakistan's envoy to the UN Office in Geneva, and in December 2016, Janjua, became the first woman, and the first developing country representative, to preside over the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. In February 2017, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Janjua as Pakistan's Foreign Secretary, succeeding Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry. Making Janjua the first women to hold the highest career position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.