Original sentence: The first Director of the Centre , Terence O'Brien was a former New Zealand diplomat with a career as New Zealand Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, the European Commission in Brussels, and the United Nations in New York
Edited sentence: The first Director of the Centre , Terence O'Brien was a former New Zealand diplomat with an illustrious career as New Zealand Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, the European Commission in Brussels, and the United Nations in New York