September 18, 2007 
The new Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to UNIDO, Ambassador Arlette Conzemius presented her credentials today to UNIDO Director-General, Kandeh K. Yumkella.
Ambassador Conzemius joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg in 1981 where she held a variety of positions at the Department of International Economic Relations. From 1983 to 1988 she served as Counselor at the Permanent Representation of Luxembourg to the European Communities in Brussels, Belgium.
From 1989 to 1993, she was Deputy Chief of Mission for the Luxembourg Embassy to the United States. From 1989 to 1991, she was also a member of the Luxembourg Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
From 1993 to 1998, she served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. In 1996 and 1997, she was also appointed Ambassador-at-large for Human Rights.
From September 1998 to September 2005, she was Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the United States of America. She also served as her country’s Ambassador to Canada and Mexico.
From September 2005 to August 2007, Arlette Conzemius was the Director for International Economic and European affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg.
Presently she is designated Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the other International Organisations in Vienna.
Ambassador Conzemius received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, in 1978. She received her master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Massachusetts in 1979.
The Ambassador is married to Thierry Paccoud. They have two sons.
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