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Ambassador Ronald (Ronny) Jumeau is a former Cabinet Minister and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Seychelles.

He held several ministerial posts from 1998 to 2007 before serving two terms as Seychelles’ Permanent Representative (PR) to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United States and High Commissioner to Canada from 2007 to 2012 and 2017 to 2021. In between, he was Seychelles’ Roving Ambassador for Climate Change and Small Island Developing State Issues from 2012 to 2017, a post he retained on becoming PR to the United States for a second time until he retired from public service in 2021.

He started his career as a journalist in 1978, rising to Chief Editor of the country’s first news agency Seychelles Agence Presse and the Seychelles Nation daily newspaper. He became Secretary to the Cabinet in the Office of the President of Seychelles in 1992 before holding several ministerial posts from 1998 to 2007. The last was Minister for Environment and Natural Resources, which included responsibility for climate change, conservation, water, forestry, agriculture, and fisheries.

Amb Jumeau was Seychelles’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United States and High Commissioner to Canada for the first time from 2007 to 2012. He was also Ambassador to Brazil, Cuba, and several Caribbean islands. From 2012 to 2017, he was his country’s New York-based roving Ambassador or Ambassador at large for Climate Change and Small Island Developing State (SIDS) Issues, which included specialising in the ocean, sustainable development, island resilience and renewable energy, among others.The post was merged with that of Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 2017 when Mr Jumeau became the PR for a second time.