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

Presentation of Credentials

Alejandra De Bellis Bonilla, the new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. De Bellis Bonilla had been serving as Uruguay’s Ambassador to Finland since June 2024.  From January to June 2024, she was an Advisor at the General Directorate of Integration and the Southern Common Market at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, and from June 2021 to December 2023, she was Deputy Director General for Integration and Southern Common Market Affairs at the Ministry.  She was also the Deputy National Coordinator of Uruguay to the Southern Common Market from July 2021 to July 2023.

Ms. De Bellis Bonilla served as the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization from May 2016 to December 2021.  Other foreign postings include being a Counselor at the Embassy of Uruguay in France, including being a Delegate to conferences of international organizations based in Paris and Monaco from March 2010 to April 2014; and Head of the Consular Section of the Embassy of Uruguay in France and District Consul in Paris from October 2008 to February 2010.  She was a Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva from 2001 to 2006.  

She has also held various other posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Deputy Director General for Political Affairs from March 2014 to March 2016; Director of the Regional Directorate for the Americas from March 2015 to March 2016; Deputy Director General for Political Affairs from March 2014 to March 2016; and Acting Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from 2006 to 2008.  She entered the Foreign Service of Uruguay in 1998 after attending a training course at the Diplomatic Academy of Uruguay in 1997 and passing the competition to enter the Foreign Service in December 1996.

Ms. De Bellis Bonilla has a degree in international studies from ORT University, Uruguay (1996), and a post graduate diploma in diplomatic studies from the Foreign Service Programme, Oxford University (1999-20009.  She was born on 7 November 1973 in Montevideo, Uruguay.  She is married and has one daughter.

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