Sir Ronald Michael Sanders ( born 26 January 1948 ) is an Antiguan Barbudan academic , diplomat and former journalist who is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States and to the Organization of American States ( 2015 – present ) ; he is also non-resident High Commissioner to Canada ( 2017 – present ) . He served twice as Antigua 's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom ( 1983 &ndash; 1987 , 1996 &ndash; 2004 ) as well as ambassador and negotiator to the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) ( 1997 &ndash; 2004 ) . He was a member and Rapporteur of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group ( 2010 &ndash; 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 . He is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies , University of London , and is a speaker at conventions and conferences on global financial services issues and on Caribbean states in the political-economy of the Americas and the Commonwealth
2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2015
Ronald Sanders (diplomat)