Luis Gallegos

Luis Benigno Gallegos Chiriboga ( born December 13, 1946 in Quito ) is an Ecuadorian diplomat.

Life

Luis Gallegos is Bachelor in Political Science and Social Sciences Master of Arts, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University / Harvard and received his doctorate in law in 1966 and joined the Foreign Service. From 1966 to 1968 he was Secretary of the Embassy in Madrid. From 1975 to 1978 he was Consul General in Chicago. From 1978 to 1979 he was Counsellor and alternate representatives of the Ecuadorian government at the Organization of American States. From 1979 to 1980 he was Counsellor in Washington DC

In 1998, he was Vice President of the UN Human Rights Commission. He was a government representative to the International Criminal Court. From 2000 to 2002 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Quito. In 2003, he was Vice President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. In 2004, he was Vice President of the Executive Board of UNICEF. In 2005, he was Vice President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. From 2006 to 2007 he was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of the UN Convention against Torture. From 2003 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. He was chairman of the UN ICT Task Force and founded in 1955 the World Wide Fund for International Rehabilitation.