Ambassador Ten-Pow accredited as Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the UN

Ambassador Ten-Pow presented his letters of credence to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, in a ceremony at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Ambassador Ten-Pow accredited as Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the UN

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday announced that longtime career Diplomat, Ambassador Rudolph Michael Ten-Pow has been accredited as the new Permanent Representative and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guyana to the United Nations.

Ambassador Ten-Pow presented his letters of credence to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, in a ceremony at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

His accreditation comes just a month before world leaders begin to converge at the United Nations headquarters for their annual General Assembly.  Ambassador Ten-Pow will serve as part of Guyana’s official delegation to the meeting.

He began his career in the Foreign Service of Guyana in 1980 as Desk Officer for Venezuela and later Head of the Frontiers Division.

In 1986, he joined the United Nations as a Translator for French and Spanish and served for a number of years at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

Upon his return to UN Headquarters in 1991, he served successively as Reviser, Training Officer, Chief of the English Translation Service and Acting Director of the Documentation Division of the United Nations.

During the period from 2013-2015, he joined the World Bank in Washington DC as Senior Programme Manager for Conference Services, returning to the United Nations in 2015 as Acting Director of the Documentation Division and later as Special Adviser to the United Nations Coordinator for Multilingualism.

The new Permanent Representative received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French, Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Guyana with distinction.

He earned Postgraduate Diplomas in Translation and Interpretation from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies with a concentration in International Relations from the City University of New York.

Ambassador Ten-Pow is married to Bonnie Ten-Pow and the couple has three adult children.

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