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Cedric L Joseph
Cedric Joseph is a historian and a retired career Foreign Service Officer. He was born in Guyana and was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and at the London School of Economics and P...view moreCedric Joseph is a historian and a retired career Foreign Service Officer. He was born in Guyana and was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He has been a Lecturer in History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Later he joined the Ministry of External Affairs, Guyana, and has served in the Guyana diplomatic service in the missions in Jamaica, Washington, DC; and as Deputy Permanent Representative in the Permanent Mission of Guyana to the United Nations; as High Commissioner to Zambia with accreditation to a number of states in Southern Africa; and as High Commissioner to the Court of St James’s, accredited to France, the Netherlands and the former Yugoslavia. He was also the Representative of Guyana to UNESCO.
During 1983-1986, he was Chairman of the Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa in London, and in 1985-1986, he also served as Chairman of the Commonwealth Sugar Committee also in London.
He was later appointed Head, Presidential Secretariat and Secretary to the Cabinet in February 1986 and retired from the Public Service in August 1991. He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Senior Ambassador until December 1994.
From 1991-1994, he was a Member of the Board of the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
He has written on domestic and regional affairs including the Guyana-Venezuela boundary controversy and on the Caribbean Communityview less
Books by Cedric L Joseph
Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Reopening of the Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966