Maria de Jesus Miranda, the new Permanent Representative of Cabo Verde to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Ms. Miranda has been serving as a Cape Verdean diplomat since 1989.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ambassador Miranda discharged the function of the Deputy Minister of Infrastructures and Maritime Economy from 2015 to 2016, and a Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2015.  She also served as a Secretary of State for Youth from 2001 to 2004.

In the diplomatic area, Maria de Jesus Miranda was Ambassador of Cabo Verde to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovenia, United Kingdom and to the European Union, based in Brussels, from 2010 to 2014, and Consul General of Cabo Verde in the United States of America from 2005 to 2009.  She also served as a diplomatic advisor to the Prime Minister; Director of Economic Affairs and Regional Integration in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and a diplomat at the Cabo Verdean Embassy in Lisbon.  

Ms. Miranda holds a master degree in in International Development and Cooperation from the University of Lisbon (2000) and a master degree in International Law from the Kirov State University in Azerbaijan (1989).  She speaks Portuguese, French, English, Russian and Spanish, and is a mother to three children.