Luis Alfonso de Alba
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Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora is the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Office of the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva. He served as Chairman of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the General Assembly in 2004-2005, and he was elected President of the Human Rights Council on March 19, 2006.
De Alba, who joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1983 and was appointed Ambassador in December 2001, served as Mexico's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from March 2002 to March 2004. Before that, from 1998 to 2001, he was Director General for the United Nations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Mexico's Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 1998.
From 1991 to 1993, de Alba held the post of Director of Humanitarian and Social Affairs for the United Nations in the Foreign Ministry. Prior to that, he was Director of Education and Sports in the Ministry of Planning and Budget, from 1989 to 1990, and Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1988.
De Alba also served as Chief of the Political Affairs Section of the United Nations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1988 and as Third Secretary commissioned at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations from 1983 to 1986.
Born in 1957 in Lagos de Moreno in the state of Jalisco, de Alba holds a B.A. in international affairs from the Institut d’Etudes des Relations Internationales in Paris.
