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Mexican Ambassador to the U.S., Her Excellency Martha Bárcena Coqui, joined Duke professor and former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, and DUCIGS director, Giovanni Zanalda, in a conversation about diplomacy and the state of the U.S./Mexico relationship.
Ambassador Bárcena was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and ratified by the Mexican Senate on December 2018, becoming the first female Ambassador to hold this position. Ambassador Bárcena joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1979. Prior to arriving in Washington, D.C., she was posted as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Rome-based Agencies. She has also served as Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, non-resident to Georgia and the Republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan; Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, non-resident to the Kingdom of Norway and the Republic of Iceland, and as Consul in Barcelona. On the multilateral level, Ambassador Bárcena has represented Mexico as delegate at the UN, UNESCO and the OAS as well as head of delegation at the Forum on Migration and Development. She has also participated in multiple international conferences organized by the G-20 and the World Humanitarian Summit.
This was the first event of our “Conversation with the Ambassador Series," a section of the “Rethinking Diplomacy” program created by the Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS), in partnership with the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy (AGS.) The Rethinking Diplomacy Program is supported by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
For more on DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy program and past events: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
Mexican Ambassador to the U.S., Her Excellency Martha Bárcena Coqui, joined Duke professor and former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, and DUCIGS director, Giovanni Zanalda, in a conversation about diplomacy and the state of the U.S./Mexico relationship.
Ambassador Bárcena was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and ratified by the Mexican Senate on December 2018, becoming the first female Ambassador to hold this position. Ambassador Bárcena joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1979. Prior to arriving in Washington, D.C., she was posted as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Rome-based Agencies. She has also served as Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, non-resident to Georgia and the Republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan; Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, non-resident to the Kingdom of Norway and the Republic of Iceland, and as Consul in Barcelona. On the multilateral level, Ambassador Bárcena has represented Mexico as delegate at the UN, UNESCO and the OAS as well as head of delegation at the Forum on Migration and Development. She has also participated in multiple international conferences organized by the G-20 and the World Humanitarian Summit.
This was the first event of our “Conversation with the Ambassador Series," a section of the “Rethinking Diplomacy” program created by the Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS), in partnership with the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy (AGS.) The Rethinking Diplomacy Program is supported by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
For more on DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy program and past events: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
