Andrés Córdova

Member of the Board

Andrés Córdova, a career diplomat, is currently the Acting Director of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador. He serves as the political focal point for various multilateral environmental agreements.

Previously, from 2017 to 2022, he served at the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations in New York, handling issues related to sustainable development. He negotiated numerous agreements and resolutions on behalf of Ecuador and the Group of 77, and facilitated consensus on resolutions in the UN General Assembly's Second Committee. During Ecuador's presidency of the G77 in 2017, he chaired processes to consolidate the position of the 134 developing countries.

He has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2009 in areas of bilateral relations, international political analysis, environment and sustainable development, and in the Minister's cabinet.

He holds an undergraduate degree in economic and administrative sciences from the Universidad de las Américas in Ecuador; an MBA from the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA; a Master's in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales in Ecuador; and a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University in New York City.