María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés

The Former President of the United Nations General Assembly, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Minister of National Defense of Ecuador, Recipient of the Rehabilitation International Award for Oustanding Achievements in Innovation

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  • 2023 - Delivered the Robert '69 & Margaret Pastor Lecture in International Affairs
  • 2022 - CEO of GWL Voices for Change & Inclusion 
  • 2021 - Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy
  • 2020 - Awarded the Sundance Film Festival Women's Leadership Celebration
  • 2019 - Awarded the Rehabilitation International Award for Outstanding Achievements in Innovation 
  • 2019 - Named one of the BBC's 100 Women
  • 2018 - President of the United Nations General Assembly
  • 2017 - Minister of Foreign Affairs 
  • 2014 - Awarded the Atahualpa Medal for Merit
  • 2014 - Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva
  • 2012 - Minister of National Defense
  • 2009 - Coordinating Minister of Natural & Cultural Heritage
  • 2008 - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Ecuador to the United Nations
  • 2007 - Awarded The Orden “El Sol del Perú”
  • 2007 - Special Advisor to the President of the Constitutional Assembly of Ecuador
  • 2007 - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade & Integration of the Republic of Ecuador
  • 2005 - Regional Director for South America of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
  • 1999 - Advisor on Biodiversity & Indigenous Peoples of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
  • 1996 - Coordinator of the Program on Socio-Environmental Studies of FLASCO Ecuador
  • 1990 - Recipient of the First National Poetry Prize of Ecuador