NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GUATEMALA PRESENTS
CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Carla Maria Rodriguez Mancia, the new Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Rodriguez Mancia had been serving as Guatemala’s Ambassador to Spain since 2013. She served as Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2012 to 2013, and Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations Office at Vienna from 2008 to 2012. Concurrently, from 2009 to 2012, she served as Guatemala’s Ambassador to Austria, as well as to the Czech Republic and Hungary; and as Guatemala’s Ambassador to Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia from 2010 to 2012. She was Guatemala’s Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2006 to 2008, where she also represented her country at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Common Fund for Commodities.

Ms. Rodriguez Mancia was Director-General for international, multilateral and economic relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guatemala City from 2003 to 2006, after representing her country in Geneva as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1998 to 2003, and Deputy Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization from 1997 to 1998. Before that, she worked at the Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the European Communities, as First Secretary from 1990 to 1993, and as Minister Counsellor from 1993 to 1997. She also worked for the Office for Central America of the United Nations Children’s Fund from 1985 to 1989.

Ms. Rodriguez Mancia holds a degree in political and social sciences, with a specialization in political sociology, from the University Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City (1983-1987).


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