Olga Yakovlevna Ivanova (russian: Ольга Яковлевна Иванова) (born 1945)
[ ] is a career
diplomat
A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...
who was the
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Russian Federation to the Republic of
Mauritius.
Ivanova graduated from the
Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1968, and worked in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the
USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of External Relations (MER) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (russian: Министерство иностранных дел СССР) was founded on 6 July 1923. It had three names during its existence: People's Co ...
and abroad. From 19921995 Ivanova worked in the Department of International Humanitarian and Cultural Cooperation of the
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 19951999 was an adviser at the
Permanent Mission of Russia to UNESCO in
Paris,
France.
In February 2004, Ivanova made history when she was appointed as . Her posting to Mauritius was the first time in the history of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that a woman was posted as an ambassador to a foreign nation.
Retired in 2011.
Ivanova speaks
Russian,
English, and
Arabic.
References
Living people
Ambassadors of Russia to Mauritius
Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni
1945 births
Russian women diplomats
Soviet women diplomats
Women ambassadors
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