Climate change expert and foreign negotiator, Michael Brotherson heads a list of Guyanese selected for diplomatic appointment overseas, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett announced on Thursday.
The minister speaking at a media a conference revealed a number of new picks for diplomatic postings, including Michael Brotherson as honorary consul general to Barbados.
Brotherson has worked for 20 years with the Foreign Services Mission in various capacities, and more recently with the Climate Change Office attached to the Office of the President.
“Mr Brotherson joined the Foreign Service in 1991. He served as the Caricom Desk Officer up until 1995 when he was moved to the Public Affairs and Information Unit in the Office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1995, Brotherson was appointed head of the unit,” the minister said. In 2003, Brotherson was posted to the Guyana High Commission in London as first secretary, a position he held until he was promoted to the rank of counsellor in 2008.
At the end of that year, Brotherson was reposted to Georgetown. At the beginning of 2009, as a senior foreign service officer, Brotherson assumed a special assignment in the Office of Climate Change. His professional training includes the U.S. State Department International Visitor Programme on prevention diplomacy and conflict resolution, and EU/ACP seminar for information professionals, Lisbon and Brussels.
He graduated from the University of Guyana in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in communication and attended the Foreign Services Institute in New Delhi India where he graduated from the Sixth Professional Course for Foreign Diplomats in 1995. In 2001, he graduated from the University of Guyana with post-graduate diploma in international studies.
The Foreign Ministry has also appointed Ambassador Extraordinaire George Talbot as permanent representative of Guyana to the United Nations. Prior to his appointment, Talbot was charge d’ affaires of the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York with the rank of minister counsellor. He previously served as second secretary and first secretary in the Permanent Mission.
Talbot holds a master of arts in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a bachelor of arts degree in modern languages (Spanish/French) from the University of Guyana. He has represented Guyana at the United Nations and at other international fora on related areas.
Keith George has also been appointed ambassador to Suriname. He joined the ministry over 19 years ago and served as director of the Frontiers Department. He has also worked in both the technical cooperation and political departments. “As director of the Frontiers Department, he has been instrumental in the efforts aimed at protecting the territorial integrity of Guyana and ensuring that Guyana enjoys its rights and meets its obligations with respect to the maritime spaces over which Guyana exercises jurisdiction under international law,” Minister Rodrigues-Birkett disclosed.
George played a vanguard role in the drafting and finalisation of the Maritime Zone Act of 2010, and led the team in the preparation of the submission for Guyana’s claim to the extended continental shelf. He has a bachelor of arts in history and a post-graduate diploma in international relations from the University of Guyana.
Longtime senior foreign service officer Audrey Jardine-Waddell will now serve as Guyana’s ambassador to the Union of South American States. Waddell joined the Guyana Foreign Service in 1985. She was attached to the embassy of Guyana in Brasilia from 1996 to 1999, and in 2003, was appointed director of the Department of America and Asia; a position which she held until September 2008 when she was posted to the embassy of Guyana in Havana as minister counsellor and head of chancery.
Waddell holds a bachelor of science in sociology and a post-graduate diploma in development studies from the University of Guyana. She also completed post graduate studies in development diplomacy in Berlin in 1990 with the German Foundation for Development and Cooperation, and in language and diplomacy in 2005 with the University of Malta.
Protocol Officer Esther Griffith will now serve in the capacity of chief of protocol. Griffith joined the ministry in 1989, where she worked directly with a number of specialist officers.From 2004, she was responsible for administration of the Protocol Division and was involved in events such as the hosting of Caricom heads of government conferences. Griffith holds a bachelor of science in history and political science from the University of Guyana. She also completed the post-graduate programme in international relations at the Foreign Services Institute of Guyana in 2003. Satyawattie Sawh who has been acting as honorary consul general to Canada since November 2010, was also appointed to the post.
The minister speaking at a media a conference revealed a number of new picks for diplomatic postings, including Michael Brotherson as honorary consul general to Barbados.
Brotherson has worked for 20 years with the Foreign Services Mission in various capacities, and more recently with the Climate Change Office attached to the Office of the President.
“Mr Brotherson joined the Foreign Service in 1991. He served as the Caricom Desk Officer up until 1995 when he was moved to the Public Affairs and Information Unit in the Office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1995, Brotherson was appointed head of the unit,” the minister said. In 2003, Brotherson was posted to the Guyana High Commission in London as first secretary, a position he held until he was promoted to the rank of counsellor in 2008.
At the end of that year, Brotherson was reposted to Georgetown. At the beginning of 2009, as a senior foreign service officer, Brotherson assumed a special assignment in the Office of Climate Change. His professional training includes the U.S. State Department International Visitor Programme on prevention diplomacy and conflict resolution, and EU/ACP seminar for information professionals, Lisbon and Brussels.
He graduated from the University of Guyana in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in communication and attended the Foreign Services Institute in New Delhi India where he graduated from the Sixth Professional Course for Foreign Diplomats in 1995. In 2001, he graduated from the University of Guyana with post-graduate diploma in international studies.
The Foreign Ministry has also appointed Ambassador Extraordinaire George Talbot as permanent representative of Guyana to the United Nations. Prior to his appointment, Talbot was charge d’ affaires of the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York with the rank of minister counsellor. He previously served as second secretary and first secretary in the Permanent Mission.
Talbot holds a master of arts in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a bachelor of arts degree in modern languages (Spanish/French) from the University of Guyana. He has represented Guyana at the United Nations and at other international fora on related areas.
Keith George has also been appointed ambassador to Suriname. He joined the ministry over 19 years ago and served as director of the Frontiers Department. He has also worked in both the technical cooperation and political departments. “As director of the Frontiers Department, he has been instrumental in the efforts aimed at protecting the territorial integrity of Guyana and ensuring that Guyana enjoys its rights and meets its obligations with respect to the maritime spaces over which Guyana exercises jurisdiction under international law,” Minister Rodrigues-Birkett disclosed.
George played a vanguard role in the drafting and finalisation of the Maritime Zone Act of 2010, and led the team in the preparation of the submission for Guyana’s claim to the extended continental shelf. He has a bachelor of arts in history and a post-graduate diploma in international relations from the University of Guyana.
Longtime senior foreign service officer Audrey Jardine-Waddell will now serve as Guyana’s ambassador to the Union of South American States. Waddell joined the Guyana Foreign Service in 1985. She was attached to the embassy of Guyana in Brasilia from 1996 to 1999, and in 2003, was appointed director of the Department of America and Asia; a position which she held until September 2008 when she was posted to the embassy of Guyana in Havana as minister counsellor and head of chancery.
Waddell holds a bachelor of science in sociology and a post-graduate diploma in development studies from the University of Guyana. She also completed post graduate studies in development diplomacy in Berlin in 1990 with the German Foundation for Development and Cooperation, and in language and diplomacy in 2005 with the University of Malta.
Protocol Officer Esther Griffith will now serve in the capacity of chief of protocol. Griffith joined the ministry in 1989, where she worked directly with a number of specialist officers.From 2004, she was responsible for administration of the Protocol Division and was involved in events such as the hosting of Caricom heads of government conferences. Griffith holds a bachelor of science in history and political science from the University of Guyana. She also completed the post-graduate programme in international relations at the Foreign Services Institute of Guyana in 2003. Satyawattie Sawh who has been acting as honorary consul general to Canada since November 2010, was also appointed to the post.
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