Carolyn Allison Rodrigues-Birkett (born September 16, 1973[1]) is a Guyanese politician who was appointed Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations in 2020.

[2] She previously served as Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization Liaison Office in Geneva from 2017 to 2020 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana from 2008 to 2015.

After attending a private school in Georgetown,[1] she received a scholarship for Amerindians[3] and went to study business administration at the University of Regina in Canada and returned to Guyana in 1993.

[7] Rodrigues continued to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs until the People's Progressive Party (PPP) lost the May 2015 general election.

She was subsequently offered a spot on the PPP's list of MPs, but she chose not to take a seat in the National Assembly, preferring to work abroad.