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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Louise Fréchette,
OC was United Nations Deputy Secretary-General for eight years, and a
long-time Canadian diplomat and public servant. She is currently serving
a three year term at the Centre for International Governance Innovation,
an international relations and policy think-tank in Waterloo, Ontario,
working on a major research project on nuclear energy and the world's
security. Born in Montreal, she graduated with a degree in history from
the Université de Montréal and from the College of Europe with a
postgraduate Certificate of Advanced European Studies. Subsequently, in
1971, Fréchette joined Canada's Department of External Affairs. She was
posted to the Canadian embassy in Athens before joining Canada's UN
delegation in Geneva in 1978. In 1985, at the age of 39, she was named
Canada's ambassador to Argentina
