George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (died 1989)

George Ignatieff

Canadian diplomat (1913–1989)

Count George Pavlovich Ignatieff was a Russian-born Canadian diplomat. His career spanned nearly five decades in World War II and the postwar period.

Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations

The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, known unofficially as the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, is the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. The position was established in 1946 and is based at the Permanent…