The Executive Branch has appointed
as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the government agency reported on Friday.
Via Twitter, the portfolio stressed that she is the first woman in the history of Peru's Bicentennial Diplomacy to assume this position, as well as to become Chief of the Diplomatic Service of the Republic.
Gervasi Diaz served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade —a position she held until August 10, 2022.
The new Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister has a professional law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Similarly, she holds a postgraduate degree in International Relations and a professional degree in Diplomacy from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru.
Additionally, she has a Master's Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) in the United Kingdom; the specialization in multilateral diplomacy from the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales (IUHEI) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Among the positions that she has held are: General Director of Economic Affairs, General Director of Economic Promotion, and Director of Investment Promotion at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Consul General of Peru in the Canadian city of Toronto and the U.S. capital, Washington D.C.
Gervasi Diaz also served as Minister Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations in New York; Political Counselor at the Embassy of Peru in Argentina; delegate of Peru at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Switzerland, where she represented Peru at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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