Ms. Ambassador Verónica García Gutiérrez is a career diplomat who joined Costa Rica’s Foreign Service in 2006. Throughout her career, she has focused primarily on multilateral affairs, with expertise in human rights, disarmament, and international security.
She has served at the Embassies of Costa Rica in Washington, D.C., and Berlin, as well as at Costa Rica’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and its Embassy and Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has overseen Costa Rica’s engagement with regional and subregional organizations of which the country is a member. Prior to her posting in Vienna, she served as Head of the Department of International Organizations within the General Directorate of Foreign Policy.
Ms. García Gutiérrez holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from American University and a Master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Relations from the Diplomatic School of Spain.
