H.E. Ambassador Gustavo Adolfo Gallón Giraldo

H.E. Ambassador Gustavo Adolfo Gallón Giraldo

Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Geneva

Mr. Gallón Giraldo took up the post as Permanent Representative in December 2022, having previously served as Director of the Colombian Commission of Jurists since its creation in 1998. He previously served as the independent expert on the human rights situation in Haiti for the Human Rights Council from 2013 to 2017, and as the Special Representative on the human rights situation in Equatorial Guinea for the Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2002. Mr. Gallón Giraldo graduated as a lawyer from the University Externado de Colombia in Bogotá (1974), has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Paris 1 (1978), and pursued post-graduate studies in political sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (1978-1983).