Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Release - Presentation of Credentials - 21 June 2001

The following Heads of Mission presented their Credentials to President S R Nathan in separate ceremonies at the Istana today:

(a) The High Commissioner of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Mr Syed Maudud Ali, who has succeeded Mr Ashfaqur Rahman;

(b) The Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary, Dr Gyorgy Nanovfszky, who has succeeded Mr Lajos Tamas. Dr Nanovfszky is the first Hungarian Ambassador resident in Singapore. His predecessor was accredited from Jakarta;

(c) The High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya, Mr Lazarus Ombai Amayo. He is the first Kenyan High Commissioner to Singapore and is accredited from New Delhi.

The curricula vitae of Mr Syed Maudud Ali, Dr Gyorgy Nanovfszky and Mr Lazarus Ombai Amayo are attached.

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE

21 June 2001

SYED MAUDUD ALI

HIGH COMMISSIONER-DESIGNATE

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

BORN: 01 July 1949

AGE: 51

MARITAL
STATUS: Married to Rezina Ali in 1972
Has two sons

EDUCATION: B.A. (Honours) and M.A. in English, Dhaka University, 1970-1971

CAREER: 1974 Joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service as a career Diplomat

1974-1975 Section Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1975-1976 Third Secretary, Bangladesh Embassy, Cairo

1976-1978 Section Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1978-1981 Second Secretary, Bangladesh Embassy, Brasilia

1981-1984 First Secretary, Bangladesh Embassy, Jeddah

1984-1987 Director (Finance) and Director (FMO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka

1987-1990 Counsellor, Bangladesh Embassy, Washington

1990-1993 Counsellor, Bangladesh Embassy, Tehran

1994-1995 Director (EA), Director-General (Europe), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka

Aug 1995-Apr 1998 Minister, Bangladesh Embassy, Ankara

Apr 1998-Mar 2000 Deputy High Commissioner/Acting High Commissioner, Bangladesh High Commission, Islamabad

13 Mar 2000 - to date Director-General (South Asia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka

Feb 2001 High Commissioner-Designate to Singapore

HOBBIES: Reading, music and the internet

21 June 2001

DR GYORGY NANOVFSZKY

AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE

REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY

BORN: 10 April 1942, Budapest, Hungary

AGE: 59

MARITAL Married
STATUS: No children

EDUCATION: PhD in Slavic Philology, Moscow Lomonosov State University,1967

Diploma at the Institute for International Relations as an expert on Southeast Asia, 1968

Doctor's degree at Budapest University Eotvos Lorand on essay "Arabic elements in the Indonesian lexicology", 1973

CAREER: 1968-73 Served in Hungarian Tourist Agencies
(IBUSZ, SZOT)

1973-81 Served in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Hungary

1981-86 Served at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

1986-92 Member, Hungarian Chamber of Commerce

1992-98 Ambassador to Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

1998-2000 Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

Feb 2001 Ambassador-designate to Singapore

LANGUAGES: English, French, Polish, Russian, Esperanto, Indonesia

REMARKS: As a professor and member of the International Academy of Sciences, Dr Nanovfszky has published studies, books and papers in various languages both in Hungary and abroad on politics, trade and international issues.

February 2001

LAZARUS OMBAI AMAYO

HIGH COMMISSIONER-DESIGNATE

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

BORN: 23 March 1955

AGE: 46

MARITAL
STATUS: Married with three children

EDUCATION:1964-1970 Kaswanga Primary School

1971-1974 Gendia High School

1975-1979 BA (Liberal Arts) in Geography and Biology, Spicer Memorial College, Poona, Maharashtra, India

Trained as a secondary school teacher of Geography and Biology in India

Post graduate diploma/certificates in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations in Kenya and UK

CAREER:

1979-1981 Secondary School Teacher, Ogande Girls High School

1981-1989 Personnel Officer, Senior Personnel Officer and Principal

Personnel officer with Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporations

1989-1992 Elected MP for Karachuonyo Constituency and appointed Assistant Minister for Education during the same period

1993-1997 Chief Executive, Catering Levy Trustees (a state corporation dealing with training of human resources for the hotel and tourism industry)

1988 Private Business

18 Feb 1992 Appointed High Commissioner to New Delhi

Sep 2000 High Commissioner-designate to Singapore

LANGUAGES: English, Luo, Kiswahili and limited knowledge of French

21 June 2001