SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MARC FAGUY OF CANADA AS HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR BURUNDI
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SG/A/615
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MARC FAGUY OF CANADA AS HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR BURUNDI
19951222 Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali today appointed Marc Faguy, of Canada, as his Special Representative for Burundi in replacement of Ahmedou Ould Abdallah of Mauritania, who resumed his functions at Headquarters in October after a two-year tour of duty in Bujumbura.Mr. Faguy is a former Canadian diplomat whose distinguished career focused on Africa and international development. His posts in Africa included those of High Commissioner of Canada to Ghana and Ambassador to Togo, Benin and Liberia from 1979 to 1982, and Ambassador to Cameroon, Chad and the Central African Republic from 1984 to 1987.
An expert in international development, he held senior position in the Canadian Agency for International Development in Ottawa, including those of Director, Financial Institutions (1972-1979). Executive Director, Industrial Co-operation (1982-1984) and Executive Director, Policy (1988-1989).
After retiring from the Canadian Foreign Service, Mr. Faguy took a position as Vice-President for Intergovernmental Relations at SNC International, a global engineering firm based in Montreal from 1989-1992. He had been a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Institute for International Relations since 1993.
Mr. Faguy was born in 1935. A graduate of Laval University in Quebec City (B.A. 1957, LL.B. 1960), he joined the Quebec Bar Association in 1961 and did post-graduate studies in tax and corporate law at the London School of Economics in 1961-1962. He joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1963.
He is married with three children.
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