Ambassador Maria Teresa Mercado Perez is appointed Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs / @aliciabarcena @SRE_mx >>>

#Economy.- Following an agreement with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, today, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, appointed Ambassador María Teresa Mercado Pérez as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, whose appointment will be submitted to the Senate for ratification.

Ambassador Mercado has been a member of the Mexican Foreign Service (SEM) since 1982, and was promoted to the rank of career ambassador in 2020. Until today, she served as director general of the Matias Romero Institute, Mexico’s diplomatic academy.

Previously, she was Mexico’s ambassador to the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Among her responsibilities abroad, she has been attached to the Mexican embassies in Denmark, Argentina, Belgium-European Union, France and Canada. In central offices, she has held different positions in the general directorates of Diplomatic Affairs, Treaties, Europe, Economic Promotion with Latin America and the Caribbean, and Protocol.

She has been decorated by the Kingdoms of Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as by the Government of Bolivia, distinguished with the Legion of Honor «Mariscal de Santa Cruz y Calahumana» in degree of Grand Cross.

Likewise, Minister Bárcena thanked Minister Jennifer Feller Enríquez for her collaboration as official in charge of the Undersecretariat of Foreign Affairs, who will continue as Director General for Europe and Mexico’s sherpa in the Group of 20 (G20).

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