Ronald Sanders (diplomat)

Sir Ronald Michael Sanders KCN KCMG AM (born 1948) is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States and the Organization of American States for Antigua and Barbuda (2015–present) who has served twice as Antigua's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1983–1987, 1996–2004) as well as Ambassador and negotiator to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) (1997–2004). He was a member and Rapporteur of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (2010–2011) that produced a seminal report entitled, "A Commonwealth of the People: Time for Urgent Reform" that laid out a plan of action to make the Commonwealth effective and relevant. He was Antigua and Barbuda's nominee to be secretary general of the Commonwealth at the election held at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Sanders was born in Guyana. He has a master's degree in international relations from the University of Sussex and attended Boston University. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University (1987–1988).

Sanders was a successful broadcaster in the 1970s, becoming General Manager of the Guyana Broadcasting Service in 1973 at the early age of 25. He went on to be an executive at Caribbean Broadcasting Union, and Caribbean News Agency. He has served as a board member of UNESCO and as Chairman of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force against drug trafficking and money laundering. Since 2010, he has been a member of "The Friends of the Democratic Charter", a group of leading personalities from Latin America and the Caribbean, established by former US President Jimmy Carter, to oversee compliance with the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

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