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MALAYSIA - H.E. Dato Ganeson Al Sivagurunathan

Credentials: 16.04.2018

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Personal Data

Date of Birth : 13.01.1968

Place of Birth : Kuala Lipis, Pahang Darul Makmur

Languages : Bahasa Malaysia, English, Tamil, Spanish (basic)

Family : Married to Gowri Kirubamoorthy and blessed with 1
son Gurubharan Ganeson

Career History

August 2015 – January 2018

January 2015 - Aug 2015

Undersecretary for East Asia Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

Undersecretary for Africa Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia
July 2011 - January 2015
Ambassador of Malaysia to Chile (with concurrent accreditation to Ecuador)

January 2008 - July 2011
Undersecretary for Multilateral Political Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

April 2004 - January 2008
Counselor, Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations, New York

November 2002 - April 2004

Principal Assistant Secretary,
Multilateral Economic and Environment Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

August 2000 - November 2002
Assistant Secretary, Development and Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

September 1996 - July 2000
Second Secretary and Head of Chancery - Malaysian High Commission in Papua New Guinea

July 1995 - September 1996
Assistant Secretary, East Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Career Highlights :

Core Member of the negotiating team with DPRK and Facilitator for the return of the Malaysians detained in Pyongyang on March 2017
Head of Conference Services for the 27th ASEAN Summit and related Summits, Kuala Lumpur in 2016

Spearheaded the establishment of the ASEAN Committee in Santiago, Chile in 2012

Chairman of substantive Committee for the Langkawi International Dialogue, Putrajaya in 2011
Advisor to the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi from 2010 to 2011

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 2009

Summit Non-Aligned Movement, Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt in 2009

Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (Malaysia held the Chairmanship) in May 2009

Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Conference, Havana, Cuba in April 2009

Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Conference, Tehran, Iran in July 2008

Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations from 2007 to 2011

Chair of the Working Group of the Administration of Justice from 2007 to 2011

Chairman of resumed session of the Sixth Committee of the 61st UN General Assembly in March 2007

Vice Chair of the XX State Parties of the Law of the Sea
In 2007

Vice Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission in 2006 to 2007
Vice Chair of the Working Group of the Sixth Committee on the criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission in 2006 - 2007
Vice Chair of the Sixth Committee of the 61st UN General Assembly in 2006
Member of the Committee on the relations with the Host Country from 2004 to 2007
Ninth Conference to the UN of the to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Milan, Italy in December 2003

Nineteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Milan, Italy in December 2003

Nineteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Milan, Italy in December 2003
Eighteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and Eighteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Bonn Germany in June 2003

Eight Conference to the UN of the to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, New Delhi, India in October 2002

Seventeenth and Technological Advice (SBSTA), of UNFCCC, and Seventeenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), New Delhi, India in October 2002

Sixteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA and Sixteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Bonn Germany in June 2007

14th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, Rome, Italy in November 2003

World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2002

Commission on Sustainable Development acting
as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on
Sustainable Development from January 2002 to March 2002

Thirteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Kuala Lumpur in 2002

Experience,
Exposure and : Represented Malaysia at numerous international
Expertise meetings and conferences on environment, international law, peace-keeping and terrorism and has developed certain level of expertise on these issues

Education Background:

1995 : Diploma in Public Administration,
Institute Tadbiran Awam Negara,
Malaysia

1993 : Advance Diploma in Business and
Management,
Swansea Institute of Higher Education,
University of Wales, UK

1992 : Bachelor of Arts Hons – History,
University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia

Awards : Ahli Ahmad Shah Pahang (AAP), 2011

: Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP), 2015 - which carries the title Dato

Fotos: Daniel Trippolt & Carina Karlovits/ beide HBF