Luis Gallegos

Luis Gallegos, 2012

Luis Benigno Gallegos Chiriboga (born December 13, 1946 in Quito ) is an Ecuadorian diplomat .

Life

Luis Gallegos holds a Bachelor of Political Science and a Master of Arts in Social Sciences from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy , Tufts University / Harvard, and received a doctorate in law and joined the foreign service in 1966. From 1966 to 1968 he was the embassy secretary in Madrid . From 1975 to 1978 he was Consul General in Chicago . From 1978 to 1979 he was counselor and alternate representative of the Ecuadorian government at the Organization of American States . From 1979 to 1980 he was Counselor in Washington, DC

In 1998 he was Vice President of the UN Human Rights Commission . He was a government representative at the International Criminal Court . From 2000 to 2002 he was Quito State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2003 he was Vice President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. In 2004 he was Vice President of the Management Board of UNICEF . In 2005 he was Vice President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations . From 2006 to 2007 he was a member of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee Against Torture. From 2003 to 2005 he chaired the ad hoc committees on the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities . He was chairman of the UN ICT Task Force and the World Fund for International Rehabilitation, founded in 1955 .

He had to leave his post as ambassador to Washington in 2011 in the wake of the Wikileaks affair with Cablegate , after the USA, following the principle of reciprocity, declared him a persona non grata .

predecessor	Office	successor
	Ecuadorian ambassador in Sofia 1985–1989	Jaime Barberis
1981: Gustavo Bucheli Garcés	Ecuadorian ambassador to San Salvador 1994–1997	2008: Galo Larenas Serrano 2011: Universi Zambrano Romero
Fernando Martin-Valenzuela Marzo	Representative of the Ecuadorian government at the UN organizations in Geneva 1997–2000
Jaime Moncayo	Representatives of the Ecuadorian government at the UN headquarters in New York City April 2002 - March 2005

predecessor	Office	successor
February 24, 1949: Arturo Borrero Bustamente	Ecuadorian Ambassador in Canberra March 2005 - August 2005	Raul Gangotena-Rivadeneira
	Representatives of the Ecuadorian government at the UN headquarters in New York City August 2005 - October 3, 2005
July 17, 2003 - September 10, 2003: Raul Gangotena-Rivadeneira	Ecuadorean Ambassador to Washington DC October 3, 2005 - April 7, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0000951.htm
2. ↑ USA reject Ecuador's ambassador from 2011