James Alex Msekela, the new Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
 

Mr. Msekela will concurrently serve as Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations Office at Vienna. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Msekela had been Tanzania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme in Rome since 2012. During that period, he also represented Tanzania to Italy on bilateral relations and was accredited as non-resident Ambassador to Turkey and Greece.
 
From 2000 to 2010, Mr. Msekela served as a Member of Tanzania’s Parliament. From 2006 to 2009, he was Regional Commissioner for Mwanza Region and later for Dodoma Region until the end of 2011. Before embarking into politics, Mr. Msekela worked in academia, lecturing at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. 
 
Mr. Msekela is a trained electrical engineer. He was born on 3 September 1959 in Tabora, Tanzania. He is married and has three children.