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Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano (born 1951) is an Argentine career diplomat and economist. He was appointed Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom in January 2016. Prior to this, he had been Ambassador in South Africa between 2006 and late 2015.
Career
He studied economics before joining the Argentine diplomatic corps in 1979, working as an Argentine representative in various UN institutions in New York City until 2000. In the 1980s he worked in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), before participating in cooperation treaty negotiations between Argentina and Italy in the Argentine Embassy in Rome. In the 1990s he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He also worked in international fora opposed to the proliferation of arms.
In late 2005 he was appointed Ambassador to South Africa. To celebrate the 2010 Football World Cup, it was he who raised the Argentine flag at the Soccer City Stadium in November 2009 alongside FIFA officials. In December 2015 he was replaced by the chargé d’affaires Jorge Guillermo Díaz de Biasi. He was appointed Ambassador to London via decree dated 20 January 2016.