Athaliah Molokomme
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Botswana to the United Nations in Geneva
Biography
Dr Athaliah Molokomme obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Botswana and Swaziland in 1981, and a Masters in Law from Yale Law School, USA in 1983. She obtained a PhD in Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 1991. She has taught law at the University of Botswana for more than 15 years, and researched and published extensively in the fields of family law, women and law, customary law and employment law. Dr Molokomme has served on several boards, commissions and professional organizations at national, regional and international levels, and is a founding member of several human rights organizations. From July 1998, she was founding head of the Gender Unit at the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), until May 2003 when she was appointed judge of the High Court of Botswana. In October 2005, she was appointed to the position of Attorney General of the Republic of Botswana, whose main constitutional task is Principal Legal Advisor to the Government of Botswana.
In this role, she also represented the Government in various national, regional and international bodies. Dr Molokomme qualified as an international arbitrator in 2016, and is now a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London.
Since May 2017, H.E. Ms. Molokomme has been the Permanent Representative of Botswana to the United Nations office in Geneva, and Ambassador to Switzerland.