LUIS ALFONSO DE ALBA GÓNGORA

Experience:

• Permanent Representative of to the Office of the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland (March 9, 2004 to present)

• Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations (March 2002, to March 5, 2004).

• Director General for the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico City (1998-2001).

• Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States, Washington, D. C. (1994-1998).

• Director for Humanitarian and Social Affairs for the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico City (1991-1993).

• Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico City (1988).

• Chief of the Political Affairs Section of the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico City (1986-1988).

• Third Secretary commissioned at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations, New York (1983-1986).

Member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1983. He was appointed Ambassador of Mexico in December 2001.

Multilateral Experience:

As member of the Mexican delegation he has participated in numerous international meetings, among them ordinary and special sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, world summits and conferences as well as in meetings of different groups such as the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77.

He has also participated in various regional meetings such as the ordinary and special sessions of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, Rio Group, Summit of the and specialized meetings. Positions held by election:

• President of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (Geneva, June 2004 to November 2005).

• Chairman of the Disarmament and Security Committee (First Committee) 59th session of the United Nations General Assembly (New York, September 2004-September 2005).

• President of the Human Rights Council (Geneva, 19 June 2006).

Place and date of birth:

Born in Lagos de Moreno in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, in 1957.

Languages:

Spanish, English and French.