Francesc Claret is the new Government delegate in the UK and Ireland. The Catalan executive has approved his appointment this Tuesday for a four-year term, after participating in a competition organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Obert Administration to fill this position. The final delegation from the Government has also been selected following the contest, with the jury consisting of a group of experts in the international field and human resources departments.

Claret’s resume highlights that in 1997 she began working as a Political Affairs officer at the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs in New York. New Government Delegates in UK and Ireland has been a UN official for the last 25 years, which is why Acció Exterior highlights that he has “long experience in political affairs, diplomacy and team management”. In the past quarter century, Claret has assumed responsibilities of institutional representation before government and public administration, high-level negotiating leadership, project management, and the organization of public information campaigns. He has served both from headquarters in New York and in various missions and regional offices in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

Francesc Claret . Curriculum

The Department of State also recalls that he was head of the Regional Office of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Medellín (2016-2017). In 2021 he was appointed chief of staff of the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Colombia and head of the Verification Mission in Bogotá.

Born in Barcelona in 1971, Claret holds a degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a doctorate in Law from the University of Leiden (Netherlands). He also has a diploma in human rights from the Institut Catal de Drets Humans (ICDH) and the Council of Europe, as well as a postgraduate degree in International and European Relations from the University of Amsterdam and a Masters in Law from the University of Sussex. . The new Government delegation in the UK and Ireland has become program director of the Mediterranean Forum of Young Alliance of Civilizations – Euromed Youth Second Meeting of the Anna Lindh Foundation (2006), trainer in the Senior Course on Mediation and Facilitation from UNHQ (New York, 2013) and visiting professor at the University Sabaneta (Colombia, 2020).