Guillermo Rishchynski
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Guillermo Enrique Rishchynski Oller (born December 25, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario) was appointed Canadian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Brazil on August 2, 2005. 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.
In late 2007, Rishchynski took up a new posting as Canada's ambassador to Mexico. He is married and has two children.
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| Preceded by Suzanne Laporte |
Canadian ambassador to Brazil 2005–2007 |
Succeeded by Paul Hunt |
