DEPUTY AMBASSADOR BEN DOTSEI MALOR

Ghana’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Ben Dotsei Malor joined the Ghana Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York in early March 2026, as the Deputy Permanent Representative, after a distinguished 23-year career at the United Nations, preceded by an impactful 12-year international journalism and broadcasting career at the BBC in London.

At the UN, he has served in several capacities, with his last position being Chief Editor at UN News, in New York. He completed a successful 18-month stint in South Sudan, as the Director of Strategic Communications and Public Information for the UN Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, from June 2022 to January 2024, supervising some 108 staff members spread across the country.

Ben has also served in the following positions in the United Nations:3:
•     Senior Communications Adviser to the President of the 66th Session of the UN GA.
•     Associate Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson to the Secretary-General;
•     Spokesperson and Acting Chief of Communication and Public Information, UN Mission in Liberia, UNMIL (2006 – 2008);
•     UN Humanitarian Spokesperson for the UN’s Earthquake Recovery Efforts in Pakistan 2005/2006;
•     Chief Executive Producer, UN Radio.

In 2014, during the first term of His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama, Ben served as Presidential Spokesperson and Director of Communications at the Presidency (Jubilee House).

Before joining the United Nations, Ben worked at the BBC in London for twelve years, where he was a popular voice across many programmes, especially Network Africa. He became the Deputy Editor for Focus on Africa at the time of his departure in January 2003 for the UN, where he started out as the Chief Executive Producer and later Head of UN Radio.

For his first degree (B.Sc Computer Science and Statistics) he attended the University of Ghana (Legon), where he did his National Service from 1985 to 1987, and later won a Ghana Government Scholarship to attend the University of Glasgow in Scotland, for his Master’s degree in Information Technology.

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