Ian Liburd

Ian "Patches" McDonald Liburd (born 1952) is a former politician, ambassador, and civil servant from Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Liburd was born in 1952. He has an MBA from the University of Bradford Management School, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Plymouth, holds a membership of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI).^[1]

In the 2015 general election, Liburd was elected to the National Assembly as a People's Action Movement (PAM) Member of Parliament for the Saint Christopher #1 constituency. Following the election in which PAM and its allies in the Team Unity alliance successfully won a majority, Liburd was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister for Public Infrastructure, Post Urban Development, and Transport.^[2][3] He was not re-elected at the 2020 general election.^[4] In 2021, Liburd was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations in New York,^[5][6] succeeding Sam Condor. He was succeeded by Nerys Dockery as UN permanent representative in October 2022.