The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada,100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military,it resulted in military occupation within a few days. It was triggered by the strife within the People's Revolutionary Government,which resulted in the house arrest and execution of the previous leader and second Prime Minister of Grenada,Maurice Bishop,and the establishment of the Revolutionary Military Council,with Hudson Austin as chairman. The invasion resulted in the appointment of an interim government,followed by elections in 1984.
Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist,she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 presidential campaign,she became the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement –a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development,education,and black liberation –that came to power during the 13 March 1979 revolution that removed Eric Gairy from office. Bishop headed the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada from 1979 to 1983,when he was dismissed from his post and executed during the coup by Bernard Coard,leading to upheaval.
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management is one of the four graduate schools of Brandeis University in Waltham,Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked as one of the top ten schools of social policy and one of the top 50 graduate schools of public affairs in America since 2013 by the U.S. News &World Report.
Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra is a Mexican biologist who serves as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. She previously served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) until 31 March 2022.
Dr. Paulette A. Bethel is a Bahamian diplomat from the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. She started her professional career in 1980 in the international field as Assistant Social Affairs Officer in the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs (CSDHA) in Vienna,Austria. She then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bahamas) and served in diplomatic posts for long years for her country. She was a Special Adviser to the Office of the President of the Seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. She was previously the Permanent Representative of the Bahamas to the United Nations from 4 March 2003 to 31 March 2013. She was the first female Ambassador of The Bahamas to the United Nations. She had also worked as Director of the Department of Fellowships at the Organization of American States (OAS);the first such position for a national of Bahamas.
Erlan Abilfayizuly Idrissov is a Kazakh politician who served as Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan 1999 to 2002 and 2012 to 2016.
Margaret Ann Williams is a former director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and is a partner in Griffin Williams,a management-consulting firm.
Nitin Desai is an Indian economist and international civil servant. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003.
Grenada is an island nation of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands,Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.
Winifred Byanyima,is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer,politician,human rights activist,feminist and diplomat. She is the executive director of UNAIDS,effective November 2019.
Adalbert Alexander Tucker (1944–2014) was a Belizean diplomat and politician. He was the Ambassador for Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2008. He is best known for his community ecological activism for the Belize River Valley Development Program (BELRIV).
Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015,and sworn into her post on October 15,2015. Mendelson was recently named Distinguished Service Professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's program in Washington,D.C.
Macharia Kamau is Kenya's Principal Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He previously served as Kenya's representative to the United Nations and as the former President of the UNICEF Executives Board.
Ngedikes "Olai" Uludong is a Palauan diplomat,currently serving as the Permanent Representative from Palau to the United Nations and the Palau Ambassador to the European Union in the Kingdom of Belgium. Prior to her role as a diplomat,Uludong was Climate Change Advisor in environmental policy and management throughout the Micronesia and Pacific region. She is an active public servant that has coordinated environment and climate change work in the Republic of Palau,Republic of the Marshall Islands,Republic of Nauru,Republic of Maldives,the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process,and served as the Lead Negotiator for the United Nations Negotiating Bloc:The Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) in New York City. As the Current Palau's Ambassador to the European Union and Ambassador on Climate Change.
Frances Colón is an American science diplomat and environmental policy expert most notably having served at the United States Department of State between September 2008 and January 2017. In her work,she promotes the integration of science and technology into foreign policy dialogues;global scientific engagement for capacity-building;the advancement of women in STEM;and the use of innovation as a tool for economic growth around the world.
Lami Phillips Gbadamosi,is a Nigerian singer,songwriter and actress. She is United Nations (UN) envoy and Oxfam Ambassador for Women and Youths.
Gillian Bristol is a diplomat from Grenada,serving as ambassador to the United States and Mexico for the small island nation. She was the first Caribbean Islander to be president of the OAS Staff Association.
Fatima Kyari Mohammed is the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations.
Rabab Fatima is a Bangladeshi diplomat. She is currently the high representative of the United Nations for the least developed countries,landlocked developing countries and small island developing states (UNOHRLLS). Between 2019 and July 2022,she served as the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. Prior to this,she was Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan. On 1 February 2022,she was elected the Chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).
