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    Lucille M. Mair

    Jamaican ambassador

    Lucille Mathurin Mair, (néeWalrond; 1924 – 28 January 2009), was a Jamaican ambassador, author, diplomat and gender specialist.

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    • In March 1982, she became the first female Under Secretary General of the United Nations. She died aged 85 in Kingston, Jamaica.

    Education and career

    Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1924,[1][2] Mair obtained a first degree in history at London University.

    In 1974 she obtained a PhD in history from the University of the West Indies with a dissertation entitled "A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica 1655–1844",[1] about which Verene Shepherd has said: "Over a period of three decades, it became the most sought-after unpublished work among students and scholars of Caribbean history and culture."[3]

    Mair served as Assistant Secretary-General in the office of the United Nations Secretary in 1979, from which she performed the role of Secretary-General for the