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Frederick W. Russell-Rivoallan, BA, MSc, FRSA Frederick W. (Russ) Russell-Rivoallan read International Relations (Political Science and History) at Toronto’s Glendon College, York University, Canada (B.A. (Hons), 1993) and graduated from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, with a Master of Science degree in International Public Policy (MSc, 1996). In 2007, he was conferred the title of Ancien Auditeur by the French Prime Minister after successfully completing studies at the Institute of National Higher Defence Studies (IHEDN).

He is a Senior Fellow and has worked as a Research Associate for the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies (CISS) and was Assistant Registrar and Protocol Officer for the Pearson Peacekeeping Training Centre (PPC).

In 1997, Mr Russell-Rivoallan transferred to Paris to take up work at UNESCO. Currently he is Chief of the Executive Office, Sector for External Relations and Public Information. As such he is responsible for providing policy advice and decision-making support to the Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Public Information, defining external relations priorities and assure the overall management the Sector's Executive Office.

Previously, Mr Russell-Rivoallan was a close associate of the Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning and is Programme Planning Officer, and focal point for Social and Human Sciences within the Bureau of Strategic Planning. He was seconded to the UNESCO Office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and negotiated UNESCO’s inclusion in the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (Haiti PNDA 2010). Equally, he was elected to UNESCO’s Staff Association and served on its Executive Bureau. Mr Russell-Rivoallan served as: Personal Assistant to the Chairman of the Executive Board of UNESCO (2006-2007); Secretary of the Special Committee of the Executive Board of UNESCO (2005); Executive Assistant to the former President of the General Conference of UNESCO (2003-2005); and, Deputy Secretary of Commission I of the General Conference (2003 and 2005).

He has undertaken missions to represent the Organisation to: Albania, Bahrain, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Gabon, Haiti, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Lithuania, FYRoMacedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

He has written and spoken extensively on the subjects of UNESCO in general, and democracy, human security, culture of peace and dialogue among civilizations more specifically. He is the Editor of UNESCO’s “Dialogue among Civilizations” series of proceedings.

Mr Russell-Rivoallan is a Canadian and Irish citizen.