Argentina Day - April 18, 2024

Ambassador Ricardo Ernesto Lagorio Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Born in March 7, 1955, in Guatemala. Married. Four children.

Professional Career During the period from 2017 to 2020, Ambassador Ricardo Lagorio held the position of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina to the Russian Federation, concurrently representing the country in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Previously, he represented Argentina to the Governing Council of the Community of Democracies from 2015 to 2017. Likewise, he served as the Director of Planning for Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship of the Argentine Republic. From 2011 to 2015, he was Attached to the Secretariat of Foreign Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship of the Argentine Republic. Earlier roles include serving as the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of Argentine Independence from 2009 to 2010, and acting as an advisor on Foreign Policy to the Vice Presidency of the Republic of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. Ambassador Lagorio served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Argentina in the United States of America from 2000 to 2003, and worked as the Director of International Environmental Agreements at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship from 1998 to 2000. Between 1993 and 1996, he was Subsecretary of Policy and Strategy at the Ministry of Defense of the Argentine Republic. He also served in the Cabinet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic from 1990 to 1992. He held the positions of Vice President and President of the Committee of 33, the Committee on Peacekeeping Operations of the UN, and was Secretary, Vice President, and President of the United Nations Committee on Information during the period from 1982 to 1989. From 1980 to 1982, he was part of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic. 2 Academic Activities In the academic sphere, since 2020, he has been a Professor of Argentine Foreign Policy at the Universidad Austral, where he also served as Deputy Director of the Center for Global Governance Studies. Additionally, he is a member of the Executive Council of the Argentine Council of International Relations (CARI), the American Political Science Association, and the Argentine Society of Political Analysis. Ambassador Lagorio was a professor of International Relations at UCA from 2003 to 2017, and of Argentine Foreign Policy at UBA from 2012 to 2015. Furthermore, he served as a professor of the course "Issues of Global Governance" at American University in Washington, D.C., from 2000 to 2002, and of International Relations at UCA from 1990 to 2000. Education Regarding his academic background, Ambassador Lagorio earned a Master's degree in Political Science in 1985 and was a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1989. In 1980, he graduated from the Argentine Institute of Foreign Service (ISEN), receiving the Miguel Ángel Cárcano and Elena Holmberg medals for the highest averages in Argentine Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, respectively. He also completed a Master's degree in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 1978. In 2018, in recognition of his outstanding diplomatic work, he was awarded the Konex Prize in the Diplomacy category for the decade 2008-2018.