François Ayodele Jackman

François Ayodele Jackman is a Barbadian diplomat who has served as the Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations in New York since May 2021. He has served in diplomatic roles since 1995, notably representing CARICOM at the UN. He served as a counselor in the Barbadian embassy in Beijing from 2009 to 2014 and was co-director of the Confucian Institute at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, which instructs on subjects like Chinese language and culture. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ayodele_Jackman