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About María Fernanda Espinosa
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés is an Ecuadorian linguist, poet, politician, and diplomat. Currently, is Executive Director of GWL Voices, an NGO dedicated to achieve a gender-equal multilateral system. She served as an advisor on biodiversity and indigenous peoples (1999–2005) and was the regional director for South America (2005–2007) at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Espinosa Garcés was Ecuador's Minister of Foreign Affairs twice, from 2007 to 2008 and then from 2017 to 2018. She also served as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York (2008–2009) and Geneva (2014–2017), and as Ecuador's Minister of National Defense (2012–2014). In June 2018, she was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 73rd session by a two-thirds vote of the member states. Espinosa Garcés became the fourth woman in the seventy-three-year history of the United Nations to be elected President of the General Assembly. Besides her political career, she is also a poet and essayist.
Everything about María Fernanda Espinosa →- Occupation
- poet, diplomat, writer, politician
- Position held
- Minister of National Defence, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, President of the United Nations General Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador
- Citizenship
- Ecuador
- Born
- September 7, 1964