Guillermo Rishchynski

Guillermo Enrique Rishchynski Oller (born December 26, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian diplomat.

Guillermo Rishchynski
23rd Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
August 2011 – January 2016
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded byJohn McNee
Succeeded byMarc-André Blanchard
Personal details
Born (1953-12-26) December 26, 1953
Toronto, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Spouse(s)Jeannette Portillo Tinoco
Children2
ResidenceNew York
Alma materMcGill University (BA, 1975)
Professiondiplomat

Early life and career

Rishchynski was born to Canadian and Panamanian parents and lived for a time in Ohio before attending Elwood-John H. Glenn High School in East Northport, New York. He graduated from McGill University in Montréal, Québec, in 1975, and worked as a regional Latin America marketing manager for Interimco International before joining the Department of External Affairs and International Trade in 1983 as an assistant trade commissioner. He has served abroad in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Amman, Melbourne, Jakarta, Chicago and, from 1999 to 2002, as Ambassador to Colombia, in Bogotá.

In Ottawa, he has served the department as deputy director, Latin America and Caribbean Trade Division, and director, Team Canada Task Force. He joined the Canadian International Development Agency in 2003, serving as vice-president of the Americas Branch until his appointment as Ambassador to Brazil in 2005. In 2007, he was appointed Ambassador to Mexico.

Rishchynski was appointed Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations on August 15, 2011.[1] After leaving the United Nations in January 2016, Rishchynski served as Executive Director for Canada at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Rischynski is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.

He is also a member of the band UNRocks, together with other diplomats.

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gollark: Flip-flop things not implemented on top of other gates would be stateful, wouldn't they?
gollark: SRAM cells need power constantly or they lose data.
gollark: Flash memory is also implemented in silicon and does nonvolatile storage using some black magic with a weird type of transistor.
gollark: This is also only stateless deterministic gates.

References
  1. "Diplomatic Appointments". Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2012-04-04.


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