Amb. Sammie Eddico
Mr. Eddico has held several positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration including Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Bureau from 2003 to 2006.
Biography
Ambassador Sammie Eddico currently serves as Supervising Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, a position he has held since June 2018. Amb. Eddico served as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Switzerland and Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Offices in Geneva and Vienna from January 2013 to May 2017. He also held a number of positions including President of the Council (Governing Body) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from 2014 to 2015, and President of the Government Group of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) from 2015 to 2016. Prior to his appointment as Amb. Sammie Eddico served as the Chief of Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana from November, 2010 to January,
- He also served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Ghana to the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and at the same time as Deputy Head of Mission of the Ghana Embassy in Ethiopia from 2006 to 2010.
Mr. Eddico has held several positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration including Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Bureau from 2003 to 2006.
He served as Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the Ghana Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil from 1998 to 2002 and as First Secretary and Head of Chancery at the Ghana Embassy in Berne, Switzerland from 1992 to 1996.
Mr. Sammie Eddico joined the Ghana Foreign Service in 1986 after graduating from the University of Ghana, Legon, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French/Russian (1984). He pursued various graduate programmes including a graduate diploma in Public Administration at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra (1987); Graduate
Certificate in International Economic Development by the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) (1990) and graduate Diploma in Diplomacy and International Relations at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (1991/92).