Stephen Mathias
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Likely Mathias is a US State Department apparatchik
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D. Stephen Mathias is an American lawyer and diplomat who was appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs in May 2010.[1]
Stephen Mathias succeeded Peter Taksøe-Jensen in the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) as head of the Office of Legal Counsel, who assists in the overall supervision of each of the units of the OLA.
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Diplomat
Before joining the United Nations, Stephen Mathias he had 23 years of experience in international law, at the US State Department for 20 years, including as Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs.
From 1992-1996, Mathias was the Counsellor for Legal Affairs at the United States Embassy in The Hague, where a focus of his work was the International Court of Justice and the start-up phase of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. From 2004-2007, he was General Counsel to the Multinational Force and Observers, which supervised the implementation of the Security Annex to the Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Lawyer
Before joining the public sector, Stephen Mathias worked from 1981 to 1987 in private legal practice.[2]
Dag Hammarskjöld
On 29 February 2024, Stephen Mathias attended a conference in London on the theme "Dag Hammarskjöld's plane crash: The Continuing Search for the Truth" and gave an update on the progress of the United Nations inquiry into the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld.[3]
At the conference, university researchers accused the US and UK of dragging their feet in handing over potentially vital information to the UN inquiry. Having worked at the US State Department for over twenty years, Mr Mathias would know very well why the US and UK are being so obstructive.[4]
