Collen Vixen Kelapile

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The Honourable
Collen Vixen Kelapile
77th President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Assumed office
23 July 2021
Preceded byH. E. Munir Akram
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Botswana to the United Nations Flag of Botswana.svg
Assumed office
26 October 2018
Preceded byCharles Thembani Ntwaagae
Personal details
Born (1968-07-10) 10 July 1968 (age 53)
Maitengwe, Botswana
Alma materUniversity of Botswana

Collen Vixen Kelapile is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Botswana to the United Nations since 2018,[1] he was elected at the 77th UN session meeting as the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council on 23 July 2021 for the 2022 session.[2][3]

Ambassador Vixen Kelapile, a diplomat born 10 July 1968 in Maitengwe, Botswana, he attended Mengwe Primary School, Maitengwe to of which he completed in 1984 with a Grade B, he went on to Molefi Secondary School Kgatleng in 1985 of which he completed with Grade A and moved to complete the mandatory Tirelo Sechaba program in 1989 to 1990.

After completing the mandatory program in a rural area of Sojwe, Kweneng District where he was assigned to a medical clinic adjoining a team of practitioners including social workers, then he moved to the city, Gaborone to attend University of Botswana for a B.A in Public Administration and Political Science which was between 1991 and 1995 and passed out with Grade B, and he began working in the Ministry of International Affairs and Cooperation as desk officer under the UN in 1995 before he also attends a training at the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi, India which was in 1996.[4]

Workshops participation[]

He was a participants of a training seminar of the Conduct of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Gaborone in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997 of which was the by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, before the one of 1997, he already attended a workshop on a Record Retention and Disposal for action officers under thesame Ministry and was between 1996. He attended a workshop on United Nations budgetary process in 2000 under the UN Institute for Training and Research of before he was among the participants in the UN Resolutions on Structure, Drafting and Adoption in 1999.[5]

Diplomacy[]

He was moved to Permanent Mission of the Republic of Botswana in 1998 of which he later became the Second Secretary for period of two year and into Counsellor in 2003, although working in the mission, he was the delegate to the Fifth Committee of the UN General Assembly, at the Bureau of the Fifth Committee in the organization he chaired as vice at the 55th Session of the General Assembly which was 2001 followed a vice head of the CPC at the 42nd Session in 2002 and was the Coordinator of the African Group of experts in the Fifth Committee until 2003.

He was active in multilateral diplomacy for more than 26 years, with that, he served as Secretariat staff member of the UN, he served in the UN General Assembly as a member of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions from 2004 to 2012, although, he was the vice chairman of the committee for period within 2008 to until 2011 when he chaired the committee to 2012 and he was the deputy Director in the Department of Africa and the Middle East in the Ministry of International Affairs and Cooperation of Botswana throughout the Africa regions from 2013 to 2014, he became the Chief of Staff to the Executive-Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa between the period of 2014 until he became the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bostawan to the UN in 2018,[6] he is also concurrently Botswana's Ambassador to Cuba and the High Commissioner to Jamaica on a non-resident basis, and among other positions he holds was the vice-president of the Economic and Social Council for 2021 session, the co-chair of the Group of Friends on the Responsibility to Protect for the UN to 2023, he co-chair of the Joint Steering Committee of the African Group-CARRICOM Caucus of which he also, is the cofounder together with the Permanent Representative of Grenada since 2020.[7]

Family[]

Collen Kelapile is married and has a son, he is fluent in both English, Setswana and Ikalanga.

References[]

  1. ^ "New ECOSOC president sees bigger role of his council - Xinhua | English.news.cn". www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  2. ^ Hub, IISD's SDG Knowledge. "ECOSOC President Offers Preview of 2022 Session | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD". Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  3. ^ Ighobor, Kingsley (2021-10-16). "Africa: For Equitable Access to Vaccines We Need Action, Not Just Words". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  4. ^ DESCRIPTIVE RESUME/PROFILE: COLLEN V. KELAPILE�; part of United Nations records (www.un.org) as document A/C.5//64/4�
  5. ^ Ighobor, Kingsley (2021-10-16). "Africa: For Equitable Access to Vaccines We Need Action, Not Just Words". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  6. ^ DESCRIPTIVE RESUME/PROFILE: COLLEN V. KELAPILE; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Collen Kelapile, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ). 16 September 2011 (Photo # 484545), available as part of United Nations records as document A/C.5//64/4
  7. ^ "Biography | 75th Economic and Social Council". www.un.org. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
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