Ambassador
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Camilo Sanhueza |
Ambassador Camilo Sanhueza formally presented his credentials as Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the Republic of Chile in the Republic of Hungary, to H.E. President János Áder, on 16th October 2020.
Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Sanhueza served as Director of the Antarctic Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Santiago, Chile, heading the work regarding the approval by the Chilean Parliament of the country's Chilean Antarctic Statute, a legal framework which is key to the nation's future development of its Antarctic Territory. Furthermore, he led the work aimed at establishing a 2020-2024 Antarctic Strategic Plan, and created for the first time in Chile's history, a National Antarctic Tourism Policy, which was adopted by the Antarctic Policy Council in January 2020.
During his professional career as a Chilean Foreign Service officer, he has specialized in multilateral issues, specifically in disarmament, Law of the Sea, Antarctica and European Union affairs.
He is a graduate of the "Andrés Bello" Diplomatic Academy of Chile, the alma mater of Chilean career diplomats. He has undergraduate and postgraduate studies in History, Geography, Law, Political Science and Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago, University of Santiago, Catholic University of Louvain, and at the International Institute of Higher Studies, Geneva University.
During his career abroad, he has served twice in the Chilean Mission to the United Nations and others International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland (1990-1995 and 2004-2009). He has also been posted to the Chilean Mission to the European Union (1998-2003). In addition, he was Consul General in Sydney (2013-2015) and served as Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at the Chilean Embassy in the Philippines (2015-2017).
In Santiago, he worked at the Directorate of Special Policy and in the Directorate of Multilateral Policy. He has also served in the Legal Department of the Chilean Antarctic Institute and the Antarctic Directorate, participating in its creation between 2011 and 2013 and assuming as its first Director. He has been Commissioner of Chile at the Commision for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) on two occasions; Executive Secretary of the Antarctic Policy Council, and Head of Delegation in the Consultative Meetings of the Antarctic Treaty and its System.
Ambassador Sanhueza has published several articles in national and international magazines, and has served as a professor at the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago.
He has participated and chaired meetings in numerous international forums, particularly in the field of Disarmament, Weapons of Mass Destruction (nuclear, biological and chemical) and Conventional (landmines and cluster munitions), among others. He has been a member of the Confidentiality Committee of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, OPCW; and member of the Registry of Experts in Confidentiality Building Measures and Security of the Organization of American States (OAS).
He speaks and writes in Spanish, English and French.