Tehmina Janjua

Secretary Tehmina Janjua

Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 February 2017
Preceded by	Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nation's Geneva Office
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 October 2015
Preceded by	Zamir Akram
Pakistan’s Ambassador to Italy, Albania, San Marino and Slovenia
In office 2013–2015
Spokesperson Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad & Director General (Strategic Planning) Foreign Secretary’s Office
In office 2011–2013

Personal details
Alma mater	Quaid-e-Azam University School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Tehmina Janjua (Urdu: تہمینہ جنجوعہ‎) is a Pakistani career diplomat who serves as the 29th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. Previously, she served as Pakistan's Representative to the United Nation's Geneva and as its ambassador to Italy.

Janjua joined Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1984 after studying french literature at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Janjua later received a Masters in International Affairs from the SIPA, Columbia University in 1989. She served in Pakistan's missions to New York City and United Nations before serving as the Director of Foreign Secretary's Office between 2004 and 2005. She served as the Director General of Strategic Planning in the Foreign Secretary's Office and in 2011 became Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. She served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to Italy between December 2011 and October 2015.

On 6 October 2015, Janjua became Pakistan's envoy to the UN Office in Geneva, and in December 2016, Janjua, became the first woman, and the first developing country representative, to preside over the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. In February 2017, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Janjua as Pakistan's Foreign Secretary, succeeding Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry. Making Janjua the first women to hold the highest career position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.