Zaire RPCV Ron “Cisco” Ruybal is new Country Director for Ecuador
Five Country Directors Take New Posts
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 13, 2004 – Peace Corps Director Gaddi H. Vasquez is pleased to announce the transfer of five country directors to new posts. Each of the country directors will officially begin his or her new assignment this month.
Peace Corps country directors are responsible for management and direction of all aspects of the Peace Corps program in their country of assignment. The country directors support volunteers in the field. They lend their skills and energy to meet development needs and promote a better understanding between the host country people and Americans.
The new country director assignments are as follows:
Inter-America and Pacific Region
Ecuador - Ron “Cisco” Ruybal
Ron “Cisco” Ruybal has assumed country director duties in Ecuador. Previously, he served as country director in Honduras beginning in February 2002. Ruybal served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire, Central Africa, from 1977-1979, where he taught animal husbandry and fish culture. Prior to his experience with the Peace Corps, Ruybal worked for 21 years with the U.S. Agency for International Development in several countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. There he worked at designing and supervising environmental programs to safeguard biological diversity of global importance such as the Galapagos Islands, Amazonian and African rainforests, Caribbean coral reefs, and African savannahs.
Ruybal is a native of Colorado. He holds a master’s degree in natural resources administration, a certificate of tropical agriculture from the University of Florida, and a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Northern Colorado.
