Egriselda López (born 1983) is a

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diplomat. In August 2019, Ambassador López became the Permanent Representative of

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to the

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. Ambassador López was appointed in November 2020, by the President of the 75th Session of the

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, H.E. Mr.

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, as a co-chair of the Ad Hoc working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly (AHWG). In June 2021, Ambassador López was elected Chair of the 4th Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) of the United Nations General Assembly, for its 76th Session. From 2013 to 2016, she served as Counsellor -later promoted to Minister Counsellor- at the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York. From 2010 to 2013, she was Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at El Salvador's Embassy in the Republic of

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. Ambassador López began her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador in 2007, where she worked as an advisor on multilateral affairs. Besides serving as a diplomat, she has experience working in NGOs and think tanks in

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and

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. Ambassador López holds a Master of Public Administration from the

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(2018), a Master of International Affairs from the

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(2018) in Geneva, Switzerland, and a Bachelor of International Relations from the

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(2006). At the Graduate Institute for International Development Studies, she completed a dissertation on gender parity in the Salvadoran Foreign Service (2018). Ambassador López’s native language is

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, she speaks

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and

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. Egriselda López is married and has a daughter.

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