Career
King is a certified accountant and financial manager. [2] She has also worked in publishing,business development and academia. [2] She taught English as a foreign language in China from 2002 to 2003 and has been a volunteer mathematics teacher for at-risk children in Miami. [2]
In 2003,King published her biography as a collection of essays called Journal of a Superfluous Woman in which she narrates her experience with breast cancer. [4]
In 2006,King founded Strategy Forum Inc,an independent publisher of illustrated books. She is also an artist. [5]
From 2010,King was Chairperson of National Investment Promotions in Kingstown. [2] She was also appointed honorary consul for Portugal. [3] In 2011,she became chair of St Vincent and the Grenadines' investment promotion agency. [3]
King was appointed as Permanent Representative to the United Nations by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on 13 September 2013, [2] [3] presenting her credentials to presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [6] In January 2016,St Vincent and the Grenadines voting rights at the UN were suspended due to outstanding payment of dues. King said it was a clerical error which would be fixed promptly. [7]
On 29 September 2016,King was elected chair of the UN Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary). [2] [8] On 27 April 2017,she spoke at the General Assembly to champion the resolution to include World Creativity and Innovation Day on the UN Days of Observance. [9] King has also served as Chair of the UN L.69 Group of Developing Countries. [10] [11]
On 26 July 2018,King was elected to be the seventy-fourth President of the UN Economic and Social Council. [12] [13] [14] She was succeeded by Mona Juul of Norway. [15]
In 2019,King led the delegation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the countries UN Security Council seat. [16] On 23 October 2019,she was awarded the 2019 Spirit of the UN award,becoming the first Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Permanent Representative to receive the honour. [16]
On 22 January 2021,King signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. [17]
On 20 January 2025,King was appointed,alongside Jakub Kulhánek,Permanent Representative of Czechia to the United Nations,as co-facilitator in the United Nations Economic and Social Council and High-Level Political Forum. [18] [19]
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