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CHILE - H.E. Rodrigo Olsen Olivares

Credentials: 15.09.2022

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Born on April 4, 1966
Married, 2 children

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in International Affairs in Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
B.A in History, Pontificia Universidad Católica of Valparaiso, Chile
Certificate of Environmental Law in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2019-2020: Director of the Environment and Ocean Affairs
2018-2019: Director of Asia Pacific
2016-2017: Embassy of Italy and Alternate Representative to FAO in Rome

He was designated as an ambassador in December 2017.
Head of the Negotiation team for UN COP 25 on Climate Change and leader of the portfolio in Biodiversity, Marine Protection, Forests and to the Seabed authority in Jamaica
Responsible for the beginning of the negotiations of the High Seas Treaty in the BBNJ process.
In the Interamerican system, lead the negotiations for the approval of the Interamerican Convention for the protection of the Human Rights of the Older People and the Interamerican Convention for the elimination of all type of racial discrimination.
Former Director of Regional Multilateral Integration, responsible for the negotiations in UNASUR and CELAC

2010-2015: Mission of Chile to the Organization of the American States in Washington D.C.
2004-2006: Embassy of Spain
1999-2000: Embassy of Italy
1995-1998: Embassy of Argentina
In 1991 he was chosen as a member of the foreign service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador of Chile in Finland and nonresident in Estonia.

Fotos: Carina Karlovits/HBF und Peter Lechner/HBF