Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations


The Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations is the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Colombia to the United Nations, accredited as Concurrent Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, and Montenegro.
The Permanent Representative is Colombia's foremost diplomatic representative to UN, and Chief of Mission in New York City. The Permanent Representative however, is not the only high-ranking Colombian diplomat in the United States, the other two being the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., and the Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, also in Washington D.C. The officeholder is charged with representing the interests of the President and Government of Colombia, and advancing the relations between Colombia and the general world community.

List of Permanent Representatives

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:
#AmbassadorsYears served
1Alfonso López Pumarejo1946–1948
2Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez1948–1949
3Fernando Londoño y Londoño1949–1950
4Elíseo Arango Ramos1950–1952
5Carlos Echeverri Cortés 1952–1953
6Evaristo Sourdis Juliao1953
7Francisco José Urrutia Holguín1953–1957
8Alfonso Araújo Gaviria1957–1961
9Germán Zea Hernández1961–1965
10Alfonso Patiño Rosselli 1965–1967
11Julio César Turbay Ayala1967–1969
12Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez1969–1970
13Augusto Espinosa Valderrama1970–1973
14Aurelio Caicedo Ayerbe1973–1975
15Germán Zea Hernández1975–1977
16José Fernando Botero 1977–1978
17Indalecio Liévano Aguirre1978–1982
18Carlos Sanz de Santamaría1982–1983
19Carlos Albán Holguín1983–1987
20Enrique Peñalosa Camargo1987–1990
21Fernando Cepeda Ulloa1991
22Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa1992–1994
23Julio Londoño Paredes1994–1998
24Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento1998–2004
25María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar2004–2006
26Claudia Blum Capurro2006–2010
27Néstor Osorio Londoño2010–2014
28María Emma Mejía Vélez2014–2018
29Guillermo Fernández de Soto2018–present