Guillermo Rishchynski

Guillermo Enrique Rishchynski Oller (born december 25, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian diplomat. Rishchynski was born to Canadian and Panamanian parents and lived for a time in Ohio before attending secondary school in East Northport, New York. He graduated from McGill University in Montréal, Québec, in 1975. During his 28-year diplomatic career, he has been posted to Jordan, Indonesia, Australia and the United States. In addition to Brazil, where he also served as a consul in the 1980s, he also held ambassadorial rank in Colombia.He was appointed Canadian "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" to Brazil on August 2, 2005. In late 2007, Rishchynski took up a new posting as Canada's ambassador to Mexico. He is married and has two children.

External links

* [http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/brazil/message-en.asp Canadian Embassy in Brazil - Message from the Ambassador]