Marius Grinius

Grinius is Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations and to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. He recently chaired the 2009 Meeting of Experts of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and will chair this month’s Meeting of States Parties. Previously, he had been Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and later, concurrent Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.