Ambassadors of Peru

Ambassadors of Peru are persons nominated by the president to serve as the country's diplomatic representatives to foreign nations and international organizations.

Current representatives

The following is the list of ambassadors of Peru as of August 2023. Please note that the column dedicated to concurrent accreditations also includes past countries in italics and that it is subject to change.

Host country	List	Head of mission	Position	Website	Concurrency	Appointed
Algeria	List	Jorge Eduardo Wurst Calle	Ambassador	Algiers	Countries: Tunisia Libya (1974–2010)	December 30, 2022
Argentina	List	Carlos Alberto Chocano Burga	Ambassador	Buenos Aires	—	February 16, 2023
Australia	List	Vitaliano Gaspar Gallardo Valencia	Ambassador	Canberra	Countries: Cook Islands Fiji Papua New Guinea Tonga Vanuatu New Zealand (1972–?; 2010–2019)	February 10, 2022
Austria	List	Luis Alberto Campana Boluarte	Ambassador	Vienna	Countries: Slovakia Slovenia	February 1, 2022
Belgium	List	Luis Enrique Chavez Basagoitia	Ambassador	Brussels	Countries: European Union Luxembourg	December 25, 2022
Bolivia	List	Jesús Ponce Bravo	Chargé d'affaires	La Paz	—
Brazil	List	Rómulo Fernando Acurio Traverso	Ambassador	Brasília	Countries: Suriname	January 1, 2022
Canada	List	Manuel Talavera Espinar	Ambassador	Ottawa	—	July 12, 2023
Chile	List	Jaime Antonio Pomareda Montenegro	Ambassador	Santiago	—	September 1, 2020
China	List	Marco Vinicio Balarezo Lizarzaburu	Ambassador	Beijing	Countries: Mongolia Pakistan North Korea (1988–2017)	December 25, 2022
Colombia	List	Mariano López Black	Chargé d'affaires (a.i.)	Bogotá	—
Costa Rica	List	Juan Jiménez Mayor	Ambassador	San José	—	May 11, 2023
Cuba	List	Gonzalo Flavio Guillén Beker	Ambassador	Havana	—	March 1, 2022
Czech Republic	List	Néstor Francisco Popolizio Bardales	Ambassador	Prague	—	December 15, 2021
Dominican Republic	List	María Cecilia Rozas Ponce De León	Ambassador	Santo Domingo	Countries: Haiti	March 1, 2022
Ecuador	List	José Eduardo Zeballos Valle	Ambassador	Quito	—	January 25, 2023
Egypt	List	José Jesús Guillermo Betancourt Rivera	Ambassador	Cairo	Countries: Jordan Lebanon Iraq Iran Sudan Syria	September 14, 2022
El Salvador	List	María de Fátima Trigoso Sakuma	Ambassador	San Salvador	Countries: Belize	February 15, 2022
Finland	List	Eric Edgardo Guillermo Anderson Machado	Ambassador	Helsinki	Countries: Estonia Latvia Lithuania	December 18, 2021
France	List	Rolando Javier Ruiz Rosas Cateriano	Ambassador	Paris	Countries: Monaco	May 1, 2022
Germany	List	Augusto David Teodoro Arzubiaga Scheuch	Ambassador	Berlin	—	December 25, 2022
Ghana	List	Rosa Liliana Gómez Cárdenas de Weston	Ambassador	Accra		May 10, 2023
Greece	List	Javier Raul Martin Yepez Verdeguer	Ambassador	Athens	Countries: Albania Bulgaria	February 15, 2022
Guatemala	List	Angel Fernando Yldefonso Narro	Ambassador	Guatemala	—	November 14, 2022
Holy See	List	Jorge Eduardo Morán Rey	Ambassador	Vatican City	Countries:   Sovereign Military Order of Malta	September 15, 2021
Honduras	List	Jorge Alejandro Raffo Carbajal	Ambassador	Tegucigalpa		November 4, 2021
Hungary	List	Raúl Salazar Cosio	Ambassador	Budapest	Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia	February 25, 2021
India	List	Javier Manuel Paulinich Velarde	Ambassador	New Delhi	Countries: Bangladesh Maldives Nepal Sri Lanka Afghanistan	December 25, 2022
Indonesia	List	Luis Raúl Tsuboyama Galván	Ambassador	Jakarta	Countries:   ASEAN East Timor	February 1, 2022
Ireland	List	Ana María Sánchez de Ríos	Ambassador	Dublin	—	April 1, 2020
Israel	List	Carlos Daniel Chavez-Taffur Schmidt	Ambassador	Tel-Aviv	—	May 16, 2019
Italy	List	Julio Eduardo Martinetti Macedo	Ambassador	Rome	Countries: San Marino Cyprus	May 1, 2019
Japan	List	Roberto Hernán Seminario Portocarrero	Ambassador	Tokyo	—	January 1, 2022
Malaysia	List	Ricardo Morote Canales	Ambassador	Kuala Lumpur	Countries: Brunei Cambodia	January 1, 2022
Mexico	List	Manuel Gerardo Talavera Espinar	Ambassador	Mexico	—	December 1, 2021
Morocco	List	Arturo Chipoco Caceda	Ambassador	Rabat	Countries: Mauritania Senegal	April 1, 2019
Netherlands	List	Marisol Flavia Agüero Colunga	Ambassador	Amsterdam	—	April 2, 2020
New Zealand	List	José Emilio Bustinza Soto	Ambassador	Wellington	—	April 6, 2022
Nicaragua	List	Alberto Esteban Massa Murazzi	Ambassador	Managua	—	December 10, 2020
Norway	List	Gustavo Laurie	Ambassador	Oslo	Countries: Iceland	July 12, 2023
Panama	List	Mario López Chávarri	Ambassador	Panama	—	March 16, 2022
Paraguay	List	María Milagros Castañón Seoane	Ambassador	Asunción	—	March 14, 2020
Poland	List	Hubert Wieland Conroy	Ambassador	Warsaw	Countries: Ukraine	July 12, 2022
Portugal	List	Carlos Manuel Gil De Montes Molinari	Ambassador	Lisbon	—	January 17, 2022
Qatar	List	José Benzaquén Perea	Ambassador	Doha	—	February 20, 2019
Romania	List	Gustavo Antonio Otero Zapata	Ambassador	Bucharest	Countries: Croatia Republic of Moldova Montenegro   North Macedonia Serbia (2006–2018)	September 7, 2022
Russia	List	Juan Genaro Del Campo Rodríguez	Ambassador	Moscow	Countries: Armenia Belarus Kazakhstan	September 1, 2021
Saudi Arabia	List	Carlos Rodolfo Zapata López	Ambassador	Riyadh	Countries: Bahrain Oman	February 1, 2022
Singapore	List	Carlos Raúl Vásquez Corrales	Ambassador	Singapore	—	October 1, 2018
South Africa	List	Jorge Félix Rubio Correa	Ambassador	Pretoria	Countries: Mozambique Namibia Zambia Zimbabwe	December 1, 2018
South Korea	List	Daúl Jesús Enrique Matute Mejía	Ambassador	Seoul	—	February 1, 2018
Spain	List	Walter Gutiérrez	Ambassador	Madrid	Countries: Andorra	March 23, 2023
Sweden	List	Miguel Ángel Samanez Bendezú	Ambassador	Stockholm	Countries: Denmark	May 1, 2023
Switzerland	List	Luis Alberto Castro Joo	Ambassador	Bern	Countries: Liechtenstein	January 1, 2022
Thailand	List	Cecilia Galarreta	Ambassador	Bangkok	Countries: Myanmar Philippines	June 2022
Trinidad and Tobago	List	David Francisco Málaga Ego Aguirre	Ambassador	Port of Spain	Countries: Guyana   CARICOM	August 25, 2020
Turkey	List	César Augusto De las Casas Díaz	Ambassador	Ankara	Countries: Azerbaijan Georgia Iran	June 21, 2023
United Kingdom	List	Juan Carlos Gamarra Skeels	Ambassador	London	—	October 1, 2018
United States	List	Gustavo Meza-Cuadra Velásquez	Ambassador	Washington, D.C.	—	February 23, 2023
Uruguay	List	Marco Vinicio Balarezo Lizarzaburu	Ambassador	Montevideo	—	December 8, 2020
Venezuela	List	Librado Augusto Orozco Zapata	Ambassador	Caracas	—	January 15, 2022
Vietnam	List	Augusto Morelli Salgado	Ambassador	Hanoi	Countries: Laos	January 15, 2018

Other chiefs of mission

Some diplomatic posts, such as the consuls-general in Dubai, function as the foremost representatives of Peru to certain countries, or, alternatively, as de facto ambassadors.

Host country	List	Head of mission	Position	Website	Concurrency	Term end
Taiwan	List	Juan Luis Kuyeng Ruiz	Commercial Economic Counselor	Taipei	—	March 16, 2023
United Arab Emirates	List	Marco Antonio Santivañez Pimentel	Consul General	Dubai	—	August 15, 2019

Political ambassadors

The 2003 Law of the Diplomatic Service of the Republic (№ 28091) establishes that only in exceptional cases and with the approval vote of the Council of Ministers, the President of the Republic can appoint as Ambassador of Peru or representative before international organizations, without belonging to the Diplomatic Service, to those who meet the following requirements: ^[1]

• Peruvian nationality by birth
• Notable ability and knowledge
• Provide or have provided outstanding services to the Nation
• Observe correct public and private conduct
• Lack of a criminal record

List

• Óscar R. Benavides (Italy, Spain, Argentina)
• Carlos Ledgard Neuhaus  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Luis A. Flores (Italy, Paraguay)
• Emilio Romero Padilla  [ es ] (Ecuador, Uruguay)
• José Quesada Larrea  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Manuel Seoane Corrales  [ es ] (Netherlands, Chile)
• Héctor Boza (France)

Miliary government (1962–1963)

• Armando Revoredo Iglesias  [ es ] (Chile)
• Julio Vargas-Prada  [ es ] (Uruguay)

1st Belaúnde government (1963–1968)

• Edgardo Seoane (Mexico)
• Óscar Trelles Montes (France)
• César Miró (UNESCO)
• Francisco Miró Quesada (France)
• Humberto Valdivia Ávalos (FAO)
• Nicolás Lindley López (Spain)
• Julio Vargas-Prada  [ es ] (Dominican Republic)

Miliary government (1968–1980)

• Mario Alzamora Valdéz (France)
• José Arce y Larco (United States)
• Luis Felipe de Las Casas (Venezuela)
• Óscar Trelles Montes (France)
• Guillermo Arbulú Galliani (Chile)
• Adelmo Rissi Ferreyros (El Salvador)
• Julio Vargas-Prada  [ es ] (Colombia)

2nd Belaúnde government (1980–1985)

• Guillermo Hoyos Osores  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Fernando Schwalb (United States)
• José Luis Bustamante y Rivera (Chile)
• Miguel Dammert Muelle  [ es ] (Austria)
• Miguel Mujica Gallo  [ es ] (Spain)
• Juan Vargas Quintanilla (East Germany)
• Luis Felipe Alarco Larrabure  [ es ] (UNESCO)
• Celso Pastor de la Torre (United States)
• Andrés Aramburú Menchaca  [ es ] (United Kingdom)
• José María de la Jara y Ureta  [ es ] (Italy)
• Augusto Dammert León  [ es ] (Nicaragua)
• Javier Arias Stella (United Nations)
• Federico Ruiz de Castilla (El Salvador)

1st García government (1985–1990)

• Jorge Raygada Cauvi (OAS, Venezuela)
• Alfonso Grados Bertorini  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Javier Pulgar Vidal  [ es ] (Colombia)
• Enrique Rivero Vélez  [ es ] (Costa Rica)
• César Atala Nazzal  [ es ] (United States)
• Hugo Otero Lanzarotti  [ es ] (France)
• Carlos Raffo Dasso (United Kingdom)
• Percy Murillo Garaycochea (Guatemala)
• Javier Ortiz de Zevallos  [ es ] (Panama)
• Luis Gonzales Posada (OAS)
• Julio Ramón Ribeyro (UNESCO)
• Nicanor Mujica Álvarez-Calderón  [ es ] (France)
• Ricardo Temoche Benítes (Guatemala)
• Wilfredo Huayta Núñez (Mexico)
• Manuel Checa Solari  [ es ] (Portugal)
• Mario Castro Arenas  [ es ] (Panama)
• Rogelio León Seminario (Switzerland)
• Edmundo Haya de la Torre (OAS)
• Alejandro Saco Miro Quesada (Colombia)

Fujimori government (1990–2000)

• Víctor Aritomi Shinto (Japan)
• Roberto MacLean Ugarteche  [ es ] (United States)
• Alberto Cazorla Talleri (Mexico)
• Máximo Manuel Vara Ochoa (Cuba)
• Luis Silva Santisteban García Seminario (Germany)
• Alberto Ulloa Elías (Argentina)
• Guillermo del Solar Rojas (Belgium)
• Alberto Varillas Montenegro  [ es ] (Costa Rica)
• Adolfo Alvarado Fournier (Uruguay)
• Arturo García y García (Ecuador)
• Jorge Torres Aciego  [ es ] (Israel)
• Alberto Cazorlla Talleri (Mexico)
• Alfredo Ross Antezana (Panama)
• Eduardo Raygada Morzán (Venezuela)
• Enrique Rossl Link  [ es ] (Italy)
• Ana María Deustua Caravedo (Italy)
• Beatriz Ramacciotti de Cubas (OAS)
• Augusto Antonioli Vásquez (Holy See)
• Gonzalo Bedoya Delboy (Uruguay)
• Juan Castilla Meza  [ es ] (Cuba, Venezuela)
• Guillermo Fernández-Cornejo Cortéz (Panama)
• Fernando Vega Santa Gadea  [ es ] (Spain)
• Víctor Malca Villanueva  [ es ] (Mexico)
• Alfredo Arnaiz Ambrosiani (Nicaragua)
• Jaime Sobero Taira (Cuba)
• María Luisa Federici Soto (France)
• Carlos Hermoza Moya (Honduras)
• Tomás Castillo Meza (Morocco)
• Víctor Yamamoto Miyakawa (Honduras)
• Francisco Tudela (United Nations)
• Luis Solari Tudela (Holy See)
• Alfredo Ramos Suero (Colombia)
• Julio Salazar Monroe (Venezuela)

Toledo government (2001–2006)

• Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (France)
• Eduardo Ferrero Costa  [ es ] (United States)
• Alfredo Novoa Peña (Germany)
• Luis Marchand Stens  [ es ] (Ecuador)
• Alfredo Arosemena Ferreyros  [ es ] (Mexico)
• Carlos Urrutia Boloña (Venezuela)
• Mario Pareja Lecaros (Honduras)
• Luis Chang Reyes  [ es ] (China)
• Fernando Olivera Vega (Spain)
• Roberto Dañino Zapata (United States)
• José Pablo Morán Val (Holy See)
• Martín Belaunde Moreyra  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Alberto Borea Odría (OAS)
• Francisco Miró-Quesada Rada  [ es ] (France)
• Luis Solari Tudela (United Kingdom)
• Juan Velit Granda (Poland)
• Fernando de la Flor Arbulú (OAS)
• Oswaldo de Rivero Barreto (United Nations)

2nd García government (2006–2011)

• Felipe Ortiz de Zevallos  [ es ] (United States)
• José Barba Caballero  [ es ] (Panama)
• Hugo Otero Lanzarotti  [ es ] (Chile)
• Jesús Jay Wu Luy  [ es ] (China)
• Carlos Roca Cáceres (Italy)
• Federico Kauffmann Doig (Germany)
• Luis Valdivieso Montano (United States)
• Luis Alvarado Contreras  [ es ] (Mexico)
• María Zavala Valladares (OAS, Jamaica)
• Cecilia Bákula Budge  [ es ] (UNESCO)
• Jaime Cáceres Sayán (Spain)
• Rafael Rey Rey (Italy)
• Ricardo Jorge Ghibellini Harten (Brazil)
• Judith De La Mata Fernández  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Moisés Tambini del Valle  [ es ] (Costa Rica)

Humala government (2011–2016)

• Nicolás Lynch Gamero  [ es ] (Argentina)
• Cristina Velita Arroyo de Laboureix (France)
• Víctor Mayorga Miranda (Cuba)
• Allan Wagner Tizón (Netherlands)
• Alfredo Arosemena Ferreyros  [ es ] (Italy)
• Walter Jorge Albán Peralta  [ es ] (OAS)
• Aída García-Naranjo (Uruguay)
• Rudecindo Vega Carreazo  [ es ] (Nicaragua)
• Francisco Eguiguren Praeli  [ es ] (Spain)
• Guillermo Gonzáles Arica (Honduras)
• Rafael Roncagliolo Orbegoso (Spain)
• Luis Miguel Castilla Rubio (United States)

Kuczynski government (2016–2018)

• Hugo Otero Lanzarotti  [ es ] (Ecuador)
• José Antonio García Belaúnde (Spain)
• Susana de la Puente Wiese (United Kingdom)
• Carmen McEvoy  [ es ] (Ireland)
• Luis Iberico Núñez (Italy)
• Álvaro de Soto y Polar (France)
• Martín Vizcarra Cornejo (Canada)

Vizcarra government (2018–2020)

• Ricardo Luna Mendoza  [ es ] (UNESCO)
• José Antonio Raymundo Bellina Acevedo (Sweden, Denmark)
• Vicente Zeballos Salinas (OAS)

Castillo government (2021–2022)

• Harold Forsyth (OAS)
• Oswaldo de Rivero (United States)
• Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros (United Nations)
• Carina Palacios (Bolivia)

Ambassadors killed in office

Name	Ambassador to	Place	Country	Date of death	Killed by
Fernando Rodríguez Oliva	Jamaica	Kingston, Jamaica	Jamaica	June 14, 1976	Murdered outside of his residence in Kingston. [2] [3] [4]

Former diplomatic posts

Host country	List	Final resident head of mission	Position	Concurrency	Term end	End cause
Austria–Hungary	List	Alejandro Von der Heyde	Ambassador	—	1917	World War I
Azerbaijan	List	María Milagros Castañón Seoane	Ambassador	Countries: Georgia	December 26, 2019	Unclear, originally described as a temporary measure. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Bulgaria	List	Héctor Matallana Martinez	Chargé d'affaires (a.i.)	—	2003	Embassy closed due to austerity measures. [9]
Central America	List	Juan Mendoza y Almenara	Ambassador	—	1943	The post, an umbrella term for different countries in the region, gradually lost relevance as ambassadors were appointed to each country. [10]
China (Taiwan)	List	Jorge Pérez Garreaud	Chargé d'affaires	Countries:   Japan	November 3, 1971	Relations severed by Taiwan: the Peruvian diplomat was personally requested to leave the country after Peru established relations with the People's Republic of China. [11] [12]
Czechoslovakia	List	Adolfo Alvarado Fournier	Ambassador	—	January 1, 1993	Dissolution of Czechoslovakia; relations continued with the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Denmark	List	Liliana Cino de Silva	Ambassador	—	2003	Embassy closed due to austerity measures. [9]
East Germany	List	Jaime Cacho-Sousa C.	Ambassador	—	1990	German reunification
Jamaica	List	Luis Wilfredo Sandiga Cabrera	Ambassador	—	December 31, 2006	Embassy closed due to austerity measures. [13]
Kenya	List	Jesús F. Isasi Cayo	Ambassador	—	1990	Embassy closed. [14] [15]
Philippines	List	Jorge Chávez Soto	Ambassador	Countries: Indonesia Malaysia	2003	Embassy closed due to austerity measures. [9]
Soviet Union	List	Armando Lecaros de Cossío	Ambassador	—	1991	Dissolution of the Soviet Union; relations continued with successor states.
Yugoslavia	List	Julio Walter Negreiros Portella	Ambassador	Countries:   Albania	December 31, 2006	Dissolution of Yugoslavia; relations continued with successor states.

See also

• List of diplomatic missions of Peru
• List of diplomatic missions in Peru

Notes and references

1. "Ley N.° 28091". Gob.pe . 2018-02-10.
2. "Slang gang bang: diplomáticos peruanos, traductores y la literatura". RPP Noticias . 2019-07-09.
3. "El embajador del Perú". El País . 1976-06-15.
4. "JAMAICA: Jah Kingdom Goes to Waste'". TIME. 1976-06-28.
5. "Fijan fecha de cierre temporal de la Embajada del Perú en la República de Azerbaiyán". El Peruano . 2019-11-27.
6. "Necesaria explicación para el cierre de la Embajada del Perú en Azerbaiyán". Federación de Periodistas del Perú. 2020-01-20.
7. Sánchez Serra, Ricardo (2021-09-06). "Piden se reabra Embajada del Perú en Azerbaiyán". Expreso.
8. "En un conocido periódico peruano se pide al gobierno de ese país que restablezca la Embajada en Azerbaiyán". AZERTAC . 2022-06-07.
9. "Perú cierra embajadas de Dinamarca, Bulgaria y Filipinas por austeridad" (in Spanish). El Universo. 28 July 2003. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
10. "Relación de Jefes de Misión del Perú en El Salvador" (PDF). Gob.pe .
11. "Nuestra China Será la Roja". 7 días del Perú y del mundo. 1971-11-03. Simultáneamente, el Encargado de Negocios peruano en Taipei (capital de Formosa), Jorge Pérez Garreaud, fue citado por el Canciller interino de China Nacionalista, Tchen Hiong-Fei, quien le solicitó "que abandonara la República lo más pronto posible".
12. "Correspondencia del Cónsul español Julio Larracoechea en Taiwán con: – Chang Kai-shek. Presidente de la República china. – Embajadas: Luis García de LLera (Tokio); William P. Yarborough (Lieutenant General, USA); Paulino D.A: Musacchio (Embajador en Taiwán de Argentina); Shoji Okamuru (Embajador del Japón en Taiwán); Fernando Larrañaga (Consul en Hong Kong)Jorge Pérez-Garreaud (Embajador de Perú en Taiwán). – Cargos españoles: Sabino Alonso Fueyo (Organo de FET y de las JONS); José Mª Moro (Dir. Gen. del Servico Exterior); Emilo Martín Martín (Consejero de embajada de la Subdirección General de Filipinas y Extremo Oriente)". Portal de Archivos Españoles .
13. "RREE oficializa cierre de seis embajadas". La República (in Spanish). 9 September 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
14. "La Llegada a Kenia: El Primer Paso al Este del África Subsahariana". Cumanana (XIV): 1. 2022-05-21.
15. Mariátegui, Juan (1997). El diferendo fronterizo Perú-Ecuador (1994–1997): reflexiones en voz alta (in Spanish). J. Mariátegui. p. 280. Cuando él [Alberto Fujimori] fue presidente, en julio de 1990, existían seis embajadas en Africa. Luego, unos meses después suprimió cuatro (Kenia, Zimbabwe, Zambia y Argelia), quedando hasta el presente, Marruecos y Egipto.

External links

• Consular Offices of Peru