Marjon Kamara

Marjon Vashti Kamara (born 13 August 1949) is a Liberian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018.

[1] She attended Saint Theresa's Convent High school and graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1970 and a master's degree in political science in 1973.

[2] Kamar was appointed as Liberia's ambassador to the United Nations in New York on 8 October 2009.

[2][4][3] She chaired the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women and was elected to serve as Vice President of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly.

[5] Kamara was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on 6 January 2016.