Mauricio Escanero

Ambassador Mauricio Escanero is a Mexican career diplomat, who has experience in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy as well as international responsibilities both at the United Nations (UN) and at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO).

Mauricio Escanero
Head of the Mission of Mexico to the European Union and Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Trajectory in the Mexican Foreign Service

He joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1982. He is currently the Head of the Mission of Mexico to the European Union and Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

In bilateral diplomacy, he previously served as Ambassador of Mexico to South Africa, concurrent to Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe; Charge d'Affaires at the Mexican Embassy in Jamaica; Secretary at the Embassy of Mexico to Australia; Counselor at the Embassies of Mexico to the USA and Japan, and Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Mexico in China.

In the multilateral arena, he has served as Minister at the Mexican Mission to the United Nations in New York and as Alternate Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States in Washington DC, as well as to the UNESCO in Paris. He has also served as Head of Mexican Delegations to various international conferences and forums, including the World Heritage Committee.

At the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has been Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and to the Vice Minister of Economic and Multilateral Affairs. He also served as Director General of International Economic Promotion.

International Responsibilities

In his personal capacity, elected by the United Nations Member States, he served as Facilitator of the Monterrey Consensus [1] and the International Conference on Financing for Development from 1998 to 2002.

As Mexico’s Special Envoy to the First High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation [2] (Mexico, 2014), and by agreement of the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership, he served as Facilitator of its final communiqué.

In his personal capacity, elected by the States Parties, he served as the founding Chairperson of the Committee [3][4] of the 1970 Convention of UNESCO on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property on 2013-2015. He was also the initiator of the First Meeting of Chairpersons of the Committees [5] of UNESCO's Cultural Conventions, held on 29 June 2015.

Education

He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He obtained a Graduate Diploma from the Institute Matias Romero of Diplomatic Studies and was awarded the degree of Master of International Public Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, and Master in Sustainability and Environmental Management at the Extension School of Harvard University.

References
  1. United Nations (15 February 2002). "PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE CONCLUDES FINAL SESSION WITH UNANIMOUS ADOPTION OF 'MONTERREY CONSENSUS'". Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. Escanero, M. & Gonzalez Segura, N. (December 2014). "La Primera Reunión de Alto Nivel de la AGCED: consolidar un espacio incluyente contra la pobreza y la desigualdad" (PDF). Retrieved 6 March 2017.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. UNESCO (3 July 2013). "First Session of the Subsidiary Committee of the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property" (PDF). Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  4. UNESCO (July 2014). "Subsidiary Committee of the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (UNESCO, Paris, 1970)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  5. UNESCO (30 June 2000). "Chairpersons of six UNESCO Culture Conventions meet". Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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