New Permanent Representative of Guatemala Presents Credentials

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

The new Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations, Carla María Rodríguez Mancia, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.  She is the first Guatemalan woman to hold this post.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Rodríguez Mancia served as Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations in Geneva, and to other international organizations, beginning in 2016.  From 2013 to 2016 she was her country’s Ambassador to Spain.

She was also her country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 2012 to 2013, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from 2008 to 2012.  Concurrently, from 2009 to 2012, she served as Ambassador to Austria, as well as to the Czech Republic and Hungary.  Between 2010 and 2012, she was Ambassador to Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia and Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2006 to 2008, where she also represented her country at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Common Fund for Commodities.

From 2003 to 2006, Ms. Rodríguez Mancia served as Director-General for international, multilateral and economic relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva between 1998 and 2003.  From 1997 to 1998, she was Deputy Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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 (UNICEF) from 1985 to 1989.

Ms. Rodríguez Mancia received her degree in political and social sciences, with a specialization in political sociology, from the University Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City, in 1987.