Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano

Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano
Argentine Ambassador to United Kingdom
President Mauricio Macri
Chancellor Susana Malcorra
Preceded by Alicia Castro
Argentine Ambassador to South Africa
In office
January 2006 – November 2015
Personal details
Born 1950 (age 65–66)
Argentina Argentina

Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano (born 1951) is an Argentine career diplomat and economist. He was appointed Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom in January 2016.[1] Prior to this, he had been Ambassador in South Africa between 2006 and late 2015.[2][3]

Career

He studied economics before joining the Argentine diplomatic corps in 1979, working as an Argentine representative in various UN institutions in New York until 2000.[3] In the 1980s he worked in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), before participating in cooperation treaty negotiations between Argentina and Italy in the Argentine Embassy in Rome. In the 1990s he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He also worked in international fora opposed to the proliferation of arms.[4][5][6]

In late 2005 he was appointed Ambassador to South Africa.[7] To celebrate the 2010 Football World Cup, it was he who raised the Argentine flag at the Soccer City Stadium in November 2009 alongside FIFA officials.[8] In December 2015 he was replaced by the chargé d’affaires Jorge Guillermo Díaz de Biasi.[9]

He was appointed Ambassador to London via decree dated 20 January 2016.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Argentina announces ambassador to Britain as new PM pushes for sovereignty of Falklands". Daily Express. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Designaron al nuevo embajador argentino ante el Reino Unido". El Patagónico. 20 Jan 2016.
  3. 1 2 "El Gobierno nombró a Carlos Sersale di Cerisano como nuevo embajador en Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte". Diario Clarín. 20 Jan 2016.
  4. ↑ "Designaron a un economista en la embajada en Londres". Ámbito Financiero. 20 Jan 2016.
  5. ↑ "Macri designó a un nuevo embajador ante el Reino Unido". Diario Popular. 20 Jan 2016.
  6. ↑ "Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano". C-SPAN. 30 Nov 2015.
  7. ↑ Clarke, Anneke. "FOREIGN RELATIONS SPOTLIGHT: Argentina". Sudáfrica: The Diplomatic Society.
  8. ↑ "La bandera argentina ya flamea en Sudáfrica". canchallena.lanacion.com.ar. 24 Nov 2009.
  9. ↑ "Encargado de Negocios a.i.". esafr.mrecic.gov.ar. Embajada de la República Argentina en la República de Sudáfrica.

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