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Her Excellency Marie Chatardová was elected the President of the 2018 session (July 2017 to July 2018) of the Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2017. Ambassador Marie Chatardová is the seventy-third President of the Council. Ambassador Chatardová is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations in New York.
Biography
Until her appointment in 2016, Ms. Chatardová was her country’s Ambassador to France and Monaco, and its Permanent Representative to the International Organization of la Francophonie. Between 2013 and 2016, she also served as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
A career diplomat, Ms. Chatardová held several positions within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She was Director of Diplomatic Protocol from 2007 to 2010, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Sweden from 2002 to 2007. Prior to that, she was Director of the Communications Strategies Department, from 2000 to 2002, and Unit Chief of the Department for the Coordination of Relations with the European Union, between 1999 and 2000.
She also served in the Permanent Mission of Czech Republic to the European Union, between 1995 and 1999, and in the Ministry’s Department of Analysis and Policy Planning, from 1994 to 1995.
Ms. Chatardová was awarded Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France in 2016, and also Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles of Monaco in 2016.
Ms. Chatardová holds a doctorate of law from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
- Statements
- Statement at ECOSOC handover meeting - 26 July 2018
- Opening remarks at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development - 9 July 2018
- Closing Remarks at the 2018 ECOSOC Special Meeting “Towards sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies through participation of all” – 23 May 2018
- Opening Remarks at the 2018 ECOSOC Special Meeting “Towards sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies through participation of all” – 23 May 2018
- Opening Remarks at the 2018 Development Cooperation Forum – 21 May 2018
- Closing Remarks at the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up - 26 April 2018
- Opening Remarks at the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up - 23 April 2018
- Opening Remarks at the SDG Investment Fair - 22 April 2018
- Closing remarks at the 2018 ECOSOC Partnerships Forum – 4 April 2018
- Statement at the 2018 ECOSOC Partnership Forum - 4 April 2018
- Closing Remarks at the 2018 ECOSOC Youth Forum - 31 January 2018
- Opening Remarks at the 2018 ECOSOC Youth Forum - 30 January 2018
- Remarks for the Opening of the High‐Level Segment of the Third Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, 5 December 2017
- Video address at Side Event on the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (2016‐2025) (IDDA III), 30 November 2017
- Opening remarks at the High-level Conference on Financing for Development and the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 18 November 2017
- Statement at OECD AFD meeting "Policy Coherence, the SDGs and the UN 2030 Agenda: Grappling with policy interactions and transboundary spill-overs in the global economy", 27 October 2017
- Statement at the High level Inaugural Event Supporting an Integrated, Prosperous, People-Centred and Peaceful Africa: Towards the Implementation of Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 16 October 2017
- Opening remarks at Joint Meeting of the Economic and Social Council and the Second Committee of the General Assembly, 11 October 2017
- Statement at the Impact of the SDGs on Development Cooperation, 22 September 2017
- Closing Statement at DCF Argentina High-level Symposium, 8 September 2017
- Statement at the Organizational Session of ECOSOC, 27 July 2017
- Letters
- Draft Ministerial Declaration of 2018 - 16 July 2018
- Provisional list of speakers for 2018 High-level Segment of ECOSOC and High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development - 3 July 2018
- Appointment of co-facilitators to lead consultations on the Ministerial Declaration of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the High-level Segment of ECOSOC - 29 May 2018
- Invitation for the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the High-level Segment of ECOSOC - 23 May 2018
- Appointment of the co-facilitators for the preparation of draft conclusions and recommendations of the 2018 Financing for Development Forum - 20 February 2018