H.E. Mrs. Romy Sonia Tincopa Grados presents her credentials as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Peru to the United Nations Offices in Nairobi.

UNON Director General, Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura receiving credentials from H.E. Mrs. Romy Sonia Tincopa Grados

H.E. Mrs. Romy Sonia Tincopa Grados presents her credentials as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Peru to the United Nations Offices in Nairobi.

Previous Positions

  • Deputy Permanent Representative -Mission of Peru to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland (January 2022- April 2024)
  • Director for Social Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru (2018-2021)
  • Program Director at the APEC Secretariat in Singapore, 2014-2017
  • Deputy Consul General of Peru in Panama, 2011-2013
  • Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations in New York, 2002-2008
  • Peruvian delegate to the Security Council -as Peru was a nonpermanent member (2006-2007) 
  • Peruvian delegate at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Some positions assumed at the United Nations-New York

  • Vice President at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) ECOSOC- 49th session 2005.
  • Vice President of the Executive Board of the United Nations 
  • Children´s Fund (UNICEF) 2005

Education 

  • Degree in Economics (National University of Trujillo -Peru)
  • Postgraduate degree in International Relations and a professional degree in Diplomacy from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru 
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Gender Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru 
  • Courses in International Relations at The New School, NYC

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