The Fundación Colegio Americano de Quito or Colegio Americano de Quito is a private college preparatory school in Quito,Ecuador. In 1940 it was founded by the former president of Ecuador and the president of the Organization of American States (OAS) Galo Plaza Lasso,and Boaz Long.
Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is a Mexican diplomat who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2016 to 2022. She was Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón;and served as Mexican Ambassador to Austria,Germany,Slovenia and Slovakia. Because of her diplomatic career,she was appointed Ambassador Emeritus of Mexico in 2012.
Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora is a Mexican diplomat.
The Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for Mexico's foreign affairs.
Palitha T. B. Kohona,a Sri Lankan born diplomat,was the former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations (UN). Until August 2009,he was the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Sri Lanka and was the former Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process. He was also a member of the Government delegation at the talks held in February and October 2006 Geneva,Switzerland with the LTTE. He also led the Government delegation to Oslo for talks with the LTTE. He is the current ambassador of Sri Lanka to China.He is a citizen of both Sri Lanka and Australia.
The 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off between the South American countries of Ecuador,Colombia and Venezuela. It began with an incursion into Ecuadorian territory across the Putumayo River by the Colombian military on March 1,2008,leading to the deaths of over twenty militants,including Raúl Reyes and sixteen other members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This incursion led to increased tension between Colombia and Ecuador and the movement of Venezuelan and Ecuadorian troops to their borders with Colombia.
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat. She was the President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 73rd session from 2018 to 2019. She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Lenín Moreno from May 2017 to June 2018. She also held several other Ministerial posts before,including as Minister of National Defense of from 28 November 2012 to 23 September 2014. She served as the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva from 2008 to 2009 and again from October 2014 to May 2017. Besides her political career she is also a poet and essayist.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states proposed on February 23,2010,at the Rio Group–Caribbean Community Unity Summit,and created on December 3,2011,in Caracas,Venezuela,with the signing of the Declaration of Caracas. It consists of 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and has five official languages.
Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri is a former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations and the former deputy executive director of UN Women. Prior to her 15-year stint at the United Nations,she served as an Indian diplomat for 28 years. From 1999 until 2002,she was India's Ambassador to Hungary,while also concurrently accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
María Isabel Salvador is an Ecuadorian politician,diplomat and professional in the tourism industry. Currently,she serves as the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Haiti,appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in March 2023. She has served in two administrations as Minister of Tourism,Minister of Foreign Affairs,Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the Organization of American States,Parliamentarian at the Andean Parliament,and President of the Governing Council of the Galápagos. Before the public service chapter of her life she worked in the tourism industry as CEO of Air France in Ecuador and vicepresident of the national tourism chamber of commerce CAPTUR.
Luis Gallegos Chiriboga,is an Ecuadorian diplomat. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador since July 2020 until March 2021,appointed by president Lenín Moreno.
Johana Farina Pesántez Benítez is an Ecuadorian politician,she was Minister of Justice,Human Rights and Religious Affairs between 13 May 2011 and 18 June 2013. Since 24 May 2017 she has been judicial advisor to President Lenín Moreno.
The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito,Ecuador.
Filoteo Samaniego Salazar was an Ecuadorian novelist,poet,historian,translator,and diplomat. He became a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language in 1984,and was its secretary from 1996–2006. He was awarded Ecuador's most prestigious prize,the Premio Eugenio Espejo,in 2001. Samaniego's diplomatic career began in 1949 as the chief of staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. He served as Ecuador's Ambassador to Austria,Germany,Romania and Egypt;and was a permanent representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI);and held many other academic,national,and international posts in his lifetime. He translated books from French to Spanish,including the Spanish translation of Chronique (1960) by the French Nobel laureate Saint-John Perse.
Gonzalo Alfonso Gutiérrez Reinel is a Peruvian diplomat. From June 23,2014 to April 2,2015 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ollanta Humala. In 2009 he was appointed Peruvian ambassador to the United Nations,in New York. From 2011 to 2014 he was the ambassador of Peru to the People's Republic of China and non-resident ambassador to Mongolia,Pakistan and North Korea. From 2017 to 2022 he was the appointed ambassador to Belgium,Luxembourg and the European Union. As of May 1st 2023 he was appointed Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Peru. In September 1,2023 he takes the post of Secretary General of the Andean Community.
Guillaume Jean Sebastien Long is a former politician and academic who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and Human Mobility,in the government of Rafael Correa. He was previously the Minister of Culture and Heritage,and Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent. Long later became Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,before resigning in January 2018 over strong disagreements with President Moreno. Since 2019,Long has been working for the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Mauricio Pozo Crespo is an Ecuadorian politician,banker and economist from Quito,Ecuador. Since 2020,he has been Minister of Economy and Finance.
Emilio Rafael Izquierdo Miño is an Ecuadorian diplomat,since January 28,2019 he is Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Eduardo Santos Alvite is Ecuadorian economist and retired diplomat.
On 5 April 2024,the Mexican embassy in Quito was raided by Ecuadorian police and military forces. Mexico and numerous other countries decried the raid as a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1954 Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum.
