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Published on: 1/23/2002
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Dr. Jones Kyazze serves as Director of the New York Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and as UNESCO Representative to the United Nations and its Funds, Programs and Funding Institutions based in New York and Washington.
UNESCO, which was established in a London conference in November 1945, was the culmination of more than 25 years of attempts to establish international cooperation in education and culture and is a successor to the League of Nations International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.
In 1946, UNESCO became a specialized agency of the United Nations.
Dr. Kyazze has been with UNESCO since 1972.
Among positions he has held with the agency at the Headquarters in Paris are Director of the Division of Relations with African Member States and Chief of the Section for Science and Technology Education in the Education Section.
He has also served as Head of Office and UNESCO Representative for the UNESCO Office in Lagos (Nigeria), UNESCO Chief Technical Adviser for the Dissemination of Innovative Primary School Curriculum in Sierra Leone, and Coordinator of Operational Programs at the Regional Office for Education in Dakar (Senegal).
Dr. Kyazze holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom), as well as a B.A. in English, French and History from Makerere University (Uganda), a License es Lettres from the University of Besancon (France), and a Postgraduate diploma in Education from the University of London (United Kingdom).