# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dessima-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:57:21.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dessima-williams"
name: "Dessima Williams"
slug: "dessima-williams"
description: "Dessima D. Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. Since 2022 she has been President of the Senate. She was a professor of sociology, development and gender at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US, as well as serving as the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) chair during COP15 in Copenhagen (2009–2011). She is currently a Strategic Adviser to Oxfam on climate change. She is also the founder and Director of the Grenada Education and Development Programme (GRENED)."
tagline: "Grenadian diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dessima_Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.78
  momentum:             0.9016393442622951
  historical:           5.471454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dessima Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "ديسيما ويليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessima_Williams"
    title: "Dessima Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessima_Williams"
    title: "Dessima Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessima_Williams"
    title: "Dessima Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessima_Williams"
    title: "Dessima Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3024610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump