H. E. Dr. Henry Mac Donald Named President, World Development Foundation; Ambassador and Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations joins WDF, October, 2017.
Ambassador Mac Donald was born in Suriname and received his legal education at the Law Faculty of the Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo, (1994) and at the American University in Washington DC, where he obtained an additional Masters of Law in “Law and Government” at the Washington College of Law (2003). He acquired Post-Doctoral honors from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Dr. Henry Mac Donald received an Honorary Degree in Doctorate for Philosophy in Humanities and the Golden Rule International Award or his international work on gender equality and women’s empowerment at the United Nations. Former Ambassador Mac Donald has been a guest Professor at various Universities and Colleges in the United States and is one of the few scholars who publishes frequently in English in the Surinamese Law Journal.