Heraldo Munoz

Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz was deputy foreign minister of Chile between March 2000 and January 2002 and minister secretary-general of government prior to assuming his present post as Chilean ambassador to the UN. In that capacity, and as the recent president of the UN Security Council, he was a direct participant in the diplomatic initiatives and negotiations on key international issues, from Iraq and Lebanon to Sudan and Haiti. Ambassador Muñoz earned his PhD in international studies from the University of Denver. He has been a visiting professor or lecturer at several universities and has published more than a dozen books and numerous essays.