THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Ambassador Michael Ten-Pow has been accredited Guyana’s Permanent Representative and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Nations.This accreditation took place on August 22, 2016, according to a release from the Foreign Affairs Ministry; and Ambassador Ten-Pow has presented his Letter of Credence to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a ceremony at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Ambassador Ten-Pow replaces Ambassador George Talbot as Guyana’s Representative at the United Nations, and Ambassador Talbot is now Guyana’s Ambassador to Brazil.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry said Ambassador Ten-Pow began his career in the Foreign Service of Guyana in 1980 as Desk Officer for Venezuela, and later Head of Frontiers Divisions. He joined the United Nations in 1986 as a French/Spanish Translator 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 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 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 Advisor 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, and earned postgraduate diplomas in Translation and Interpretation from the University of Geneva in 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, with whom he has fathered three adult children.