Marie-Louise Potter (born March 15, 1959) is a Seychellois politician and diplomat member of the

National Assembly of Seychelles , legislature = 7th National Assembly , logo_pic = Logo of the National Assembly of Seychelles.svg , logo_res = 170px , logo_alt = Logo of the National Assembly of Seychelles. , logo_caption = Logo of the National Assembly of Seychelles. , h ...

. She is a member of the

Seychelles People's Progressive Front United Seychelles is a political party in Seychelles. It publishes a newspaper called ''The People''. It was known as the Seychelles People's Progressive Front (french: Front Progressiste du Peuple Seychellois) until June 2009, when it changed i ...

, and was first elected to the Assembly in 1993. In 2007 she became the leader of Government Business. Potter was appointed in March 2012 as the Permanent Representative of Seychelles to the United Nations, on June 9, 2012 as the Seychellense Ambassador to the United States, High commissioner (Commonwealth) to Ottawa and on 1 November 2016 as Foreign Secretary, and retired from these posts on 1 March 2017.

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