Geraldine Byrne Nason

Nason was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2014. She has a honorary doctorate of letters from Maynooth University. She received the Freedom of the Town of Drogheda on 10 January 2020.

In 2018 and 2019 Nason chaired the 62nd and 63rd sessions of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

In August 2017, Nason was appointed as Ireland's permanent representative to the UN in New York by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, replacing David Donoghue. She has been tasked with trying to secure Ireland a seat on the UN Security Council in 2020.

Graduation speech at International School, Paris, 2017.

In August 2014, Nason was appointed Ireland's Ambassador to France and Monaco. Alongside her Swedish counterpart, she started an informal network of women ambassadors and journalists in Paris.

Nason served as Second Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach from 2011 until 2014, making her the highest ranking female civil servant in the country. In summer 2014, she produced a report of issues that might affect Ireland if the United Kingdom left the European Union.

Nason joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1982. She was Director for Governance at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris in the 1990s. She has served at the UN in New York, Vienna, Geneva, and Helsinki.

Geraldine Byrne Nason (born 1959) is an Irish diplomat who has been the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since August 2017.

Nason was born in Drogheda in 1959, and attended Our Lady's College, Greenhills. She has a BA and MA in Literature from St Patrick's College, Maynooth.