Ambassador Odette Melono of Cameroon became Deputy Director-General of the

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997. The OPCW, with its 193 member ...

(OPCW) on January 14, 2019. Melono also served as Ambassador of Cameroon to the Netherlands and Luxembourg and the Permanent Representative of Cameroon to the OPCW, from 2008 to 2018. Melono was the first full Cameroonian Ambassador to serve in the Netherlands. Melono graduated from the

University of Paris X Paris Nanterre University (French: ''Université Paris Nanterre''), formerly Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Paris, France. It is one of the most prestigious French universities, ma ...

with a Bachelor's and a master's degree in Law before going on to earn a master's degree in Corporate Tax Management from the University of Paris-Dauphine and a master's degree as well as a Doctorate in International Relations from the

University of Yaoundé II The University of Yaoundé II ( French: ''Université de Yaoundé II'') is a public university in Cameroon, located in the capital Yaoundé. It was formed in 1993 following a university reform that split the country's oldest university, the Univer ...

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