Laura Dupuy Lasserre

Laura Dupuy Lasserre is an Uruguayan diplomat, and since 2009 the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Office at Geneva with the rank of Ambassador. She was elected President of the United Nations Human Rights Council for the term 2011–2012. She formerly served as Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, as Director for the Americas, responsible for bilateral relations with the 34 countries in the region, and as President-Rapporteur of the Social Forum 2010 on Climate Change and Human Rights.