Oh Joon (; born 4 October 1955) is the former South Korean

Ambassador to the United Nations A permanent representative to the United Nations (sometimes called a "UN ambassador")"History of Ambassadors", United States Mission to the United Nations, March 2011, webpagUSUN-a. is the head of a country's diplomatic mission to the United Nati ...

(UN). He became South Korean Ambassador to the

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in September 2013. From July 24, 2015 to July 28, 2016, he was the 71st President of the

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. In 2016, Oh was appointed by

Erik Solheim Erik Solheim (born 18 January 1955) is a Norwegian diplomat and former politician. He served in the Norwegian government from 2005 to 2012 as Minister of International Development and Minister of the Environment, and as Under-Secretary-General of ...

, the Chairman of the

Development Assistance Committee The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is a forum to discuss issues surrounding aid, development and poverty reduction in developing countries. It describes itself as being the ...

, to serve on the High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee under the leadership of

Mary Robinson Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( ga, Máire Mhic Róibín; ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who was the 7th president of Ireland, serving from December 1990 to September 1997, the first woman to hold this office. Prior to her electi ...

.High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oh, Joon Living people 1955 births South Korean diplomats Permanent Representatives of South Korea to the United Nations Ambassadors to Singapore Seoul National University alumni Kyunggi High School alumni People from Seoul Haeju Oh clan Alumni of the London School of Economics Stanford University alumni