Ambassador Harold Adlai Agyeman is Ghana’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. His diplomatic career spans three decades and has included missions to: (a) the United Nations in New York; (b) the High Commission of Ghana in India; and (c) the Embassy of Ghana to Benin. In both New Delhi and Cotonou, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission and had extended stints as Acting High Commissioner and Chargé d’Affaires respectively. Ambassador Agyeman is a Vice-President of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and was recently the Chair of the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference on the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT). He also served as Ghana’s representative to the United Nations Security Council between 2022 and 2023 in addition to roles as the Chair of the 2127 Committee on the Central African Republic, the 1591 Committee on the Sudan and the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping. Ambassador Agyeman continues to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme for the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law and is a previous facilitator of negotiations in the Legal as well as Administrative and Budgetary Committees of the United Nations General Assembly. In addition, he served as the Vice Chair of the 46th session of the Committee on Programme Coordination. Ambassador Agyeman is credited with the success of the negotiations that led to the Security Council’s adoption of the historic resolution 2719 (2023). Prior to his present diplomatic assignment, Ambassador Agyeman was the Director of Administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration between 2019 – 2021 and previously served as the Director of the African and Regional Integration Bureau of the Ministry. He has had and continues to be engaged with senior level engagements on critical continental and regional concerns. Ambassador Agyeman holds an advanced degree in international affairs, obtained from the Legon Centre for International Affairs of the University of Ghana and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with Philosophy from the University of Ghana. He has participated in several short-term training courses in areas such as diplomacy, international peace and security, monitoring and evaluation, arbitration, regional trade facilitation, negotiation of financial transactions, and capital market development and regulation. Ambassador Agyeman is the author of a number of articles, as well as the book, “Diplomatic Protocol: A Guide for Ghana Diplomats and Senior Government Officials”. He has three sons and enjoys to read, walk and play golf in his leisure periods.