Jeremy Shearer
 Jeremy Shearer  (Diplomat) | |
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| Born | Jeremy Brown Shearer 4 October 1931 Queenstown, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of Stellenbosch |
Jeremy Shearer was born on the 4 October 1931 in Queenstown, South Africa and obtained his LLB at the University of Stellenbosch in 1953.
Working for the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the 1950s, Jeremy Shearer was posted as a diplomat to a number of European countries and the US, and represented South Africa at a variety of international conferences.
Jeremy Shearer became Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations, where he presented his credentials to then Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar at the UN headquarters in New York in August 1988.
He retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs on the 30 April 1994.[1]
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