Luis Alfonso De Alba Gongora

Luis Alfonso de Alba has been a Mexican diplomat since 1983 and is the current Ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations in New York. He was first appointed Ambassador on December 2001.

LuisAlfonso de Alba has been a Mexican diplomat since 1983 and is the current Ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations in New York. He was first appointed Ambassador on December 2001.Throughout his career, he has participated in numerous multilateral meetings, both at the global and regional levels, which has allowed him to gain substantive knowledge on the work and functioning ofmultilateral organizations, particularly those of the United Nations. In these fora, he has actively pursued the advancement of human rights and humanitarian issues, including through the strengtheningand improvement of the relevant international mechanisms.

Career
From 1983 to 1986, he was assigned to the Mexican Mission to the UN in New York, where he was responsible of the DecolonizationCommittee and member of the Council for Namibia. He also followed different political matters, including the peace process in Central America (Contadora Group), the situation in the Middle East[1]
AsDirector for Social Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1991 to 1994), he participated in the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna), as well as in the 48th and 49th Sessions of theCommission on Human Rights, in which he worked mainly on the situation of Human Rights in El Salvador.
From 1994 to 1998, he was Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States(OAS), where he promoted important initiatives on human rights, the rule of law and humanitarian issues. Among them, the negotiation of the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of Violenceagainst Women. He also worked in the preparation of the Summits of the Americas (Miami, 1994 and Santiago, 1998)
Ambassador De Alba was General Director for the United Nations System of the Mexican...