François Jackman
Barbadian diplomat
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François Ayodele Jackman is a Barbadian diplomat who has served as the Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations in New York since May 2021.
François Jackman | |
|---|---|
| Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations in New York | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2021 | |
| President | Sandra Mason |
| Preceded by | Henrietta Elizabeth Thompson |
He has served in diplomatic roles since 1995, notably representing CARICOM at the UN.[1]
He served as a counselor in the Barbadian embassy in Beijing from 2009 to 2014 and was co-director of the Confucian Institute at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, which instructs on subjects like Chinese language and culture.[2] He served as Ambassador to China from 2018 until his UN appointment in 2021. He has a Master's degree in international boundary studies from Durham University and a Bachelor's from the London School of Economics.[3][4][5]