1973 Graduate in Legal and Social Sciences from the
University of Chile
1974 Graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of Chile.
1983 UNITAR Fellowship on Disarmament and
International Security.
1975-1980 Diplomatic staff member of the Permanent Mission
of Chile to the United Nations Office and other
International Organizations in Geneva,
Switzerland.
1983-1986 Diplomatic Staff Member of the Permanent
Mission of Chile to the UN in New York.
1987-1988 Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile to the
International Organizations in Nairobi, Kenya
(PNUMA/HABITAT)
1988-1989 Embassy of Chile in Colombia, Representative of
Chile to the Permanent Commission for the South
Pacific (CPPS).
1990-1993 Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Chile to
the U.N. Office and other international
organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.
1994-1997 Minister Counselor at the Embassy of Chile in
Madrid, Spain
1997-2000 Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN
Office and other International Organizations in
Geneva, Switzerland.
2001-2006 Director of Multilateral Policy, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Coordinator of Chile for the UN Security
Council.
2006-2010 Permanent Representative of Chile to the
Organization of American States.
Posts held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
- Department for Special Policies, Department for Maritime
and Antarctic Affairs
- Multilateral Policy Department, Head of Department for UN
Agencies
- Deputy-Head of the Multilateral Policy Department.
International Conferences:
- Delegate of Chile to the Commission on Human Rights.
Representative of Chile at various U.N. General Assembly
sessions.
- Member of the Chilean delegation to the 3rd U.N.
Conference on the Law of the Sea.
- Policy Coordinator of the Chilean delegation at the UN
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 2001.
- Participated in the coordination of contents of the World
Summit for Social Development, the World Conference on
Human Rights and the UN Millennium Summit.
- Coordinator of the Chilean Delegation in the negotiation on
the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.
- Member of the Chilean Delegation to the OAS General
Assembly between 2001 and 2009 (XXXI-XXXIX).
- Submission of papers at different fora on multilateralism,
UN Reform, Inter-American System, Academic Institutions
and Universities.
- Associate Professor and guest professor on International
Civil Law.
- Member of the Chilean Society of International Law.
Publications:
- The Latin-American countries and the 200 miles, 1974,
Editorial Jurídica.
- The Antarctic Treaty as Disarmament Agreement, 1974.
- Reflections on Chile’s Multilateral Policy, 2006.
- The Organization of American States and cooperation in the
Hemisphere. A few reflections for an Evaluation Exercise,
Review for International Studies of the University of Chile,
2009.
- Some Reflections on the International and Regional Human
Rights System, 2010, under print.
Languages: mother tongue Spanish, fluency in French and
English.
Civil status: Single
