Alexandra Hill Tinoco | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador | |
| Assumed office 1 June 2019 | |
| President | Nayib Bukele |
| Preceded by | Carlos Castaneda |
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| Born | 1965 (age 57–58) San Salvador,El Salvador |
Alexandra Hill Tinoco is a Salvadoran politician who has been El Salvador's Foreign Minister since June 2019.
Hill Tinoco is the daughter of Jaime Hill,who was president of the Anti-drug Foundation of El Salvador (Fundasalva) and alderman of the municipal council of San Salvador. [1] She has a Bachelor of Arts in political science and Latin American studies from Boston University and a master's degree in from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,where she was a NIDA Humphrey Fellow and specialized in public policy management,prevention of drug use and drug abuse treatment. [1] [2] [3]
She is a member of the Hill family,whose roots go back to James Hill,an Englishman who sailed to El Salvador in order to start a coffee-planting business. The business developed greatly by using new strategies to develop new coffee mixtures. [4]
Hill Tinoco worked as executive director of Fundasalva,an NGO focused on the prevention and treatment of drug abuse. [2] She was a member of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission in 2006 and led the Drug Reduction Section in 2012. [2]
Hill Tinoco has worked in the Organization of American States and with the United States Department of State and the United Nations Office on Drugs. [1] Along with Elizabeth Lira,she authored the book The Other Face of Peace (1995). [2] Hill Tinoco was the first cabinet appointment announced by President-elect Nayib Bukele,on Twitter,in May 2019. [1]
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