Inga Rhonda King, who comes to diplomacy from the private sector, has lived and worked in several Caribbean countries, the United States of America and China. She is a business owner, business strategist, the author of three books, and a management accountant with more than two decades of professional experience. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and chemistry and is the immediate past chair of the Investment Promotions Agency of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Invest SVG) and a former Honorary Consul for Portugal to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Since becoming Permanent Representative in September 2013, Ambassador King has had several leadership roles which include:
• Currently the 74th President of the Econmic and Social Council for the period 2018-2019. The ECOSOC is at the heart of the United Nations system to advance the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental
· Chair of the Island Women Open Network (2016 – present), which is tasked with ensuring gender- mainstreaming in the renewable energy sector of Small Island Developing States by building capacity at the grassroots and community level. The IWON is a part of the SIDS DOCK Secretariat platform. She was elected in September 2016 for a three-year term.
· She is also the Chair/Spokesperson of L69 (2016 – present), the largest reform group for the Security Council Reform of the United Nations and Chair of the Secretariat of the recently formed Group of Friends for the same.
· Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council for the period 2017-2018.
· She was the Chair of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly of the 71st Session (2016 – 2017). The Fifth Committee is charged with the oversight responsibilities for the Administrative and Budgetary Affairs of the United Nations and at the time of her chairmanship she was only the second woman to chair this committee in the history of the United Nations.
