New Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Iván Emilio de Jesús Ogando Lora, the new Permanent Representative ofthe Dominican Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva,Mr. Ogando Lora had been serving as Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Belgium and to Luxembourg, as well as the Head of the Mission of the Dominican Republic to the European Union since 2020. He was an Advisor for trade and general cooperation issues at the Vice Ministry of Negotiations and International Cooperation of the Dominican Republic from 2017 to 2020, and Director of the Caribbean Directorate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic from 2015 to 2017.

Mr. Ogando Lora served as the first Director General of the Caribbean Forum of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States from 2011 to 2013, where he also held various positions from 1995 to 1999. He served in other high-level positions in regional and international organizations, including as General Manager of the Foreign Trade Management Strengthening Project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank from 2007 to 2010, and Executive Director of the Administrative Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas from 2000 to 2005, among others.

He was appointed to open the Dominican Republic’s first permanent diplomatic mission in Trinidad and Tobago as Minister Counselor Ad-Hoc in 1999.

Mr. Ogando Lora also has extensive academic experience. He was a professor in graduate programmes at three universities in the Dominican Republic, and from 2014 to 2021, he served as Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Dominican Republic Programme. He is the author of multiple publications on issues of international trade and regional cooperation in the Caribbean and Europe.

He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and social sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, a master's degree in economic policy, majoring in international relations from Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, and has undertaken postgraduate studies in development cooperation and management of development projects. He is married with one son and two stepsons.

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