Audrey Rivera Gómez

A distinguished career official of the Mexican Foreign Service, she boasts extensive diplomatic and consular expertise. Holding a doctorate in international relations and social sciences, she also possesses two master's degrees—one in diplomatic studies and another in business administration—alongside a bachelor's degree in international relations. Her academic pursuits have encompassed studies in various fields such as international migration, protection of Mexicans abroad, human rights, leadership, electoral processes, public-private collaboration in local governance, and managerial skills.

Her professional roles include serving as consul overseeing the protection of Mexicans abroad at the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas, and later at the Mexican Consulate in Toronto, Canada, managing the Mexico-Canada Temporary Agricultural Worker Program. Within the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, she fulfilled the role of consul within the Consular Section, while in Sweden, she served as Head of the Chancellery and Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, concurrently managing affairs in the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania.

During her tenure at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she provided advisory support to undersecretaries focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Moreover, she held significant positions at the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, the Chief Officer's Office, the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies, and the General Directorate of Consular Affairs.

Active participation in multilateral forums underscores her diplomatic acumen, including spearheading the coordination of the International Conference on Financing for Development of the United Nations Organization in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002. She played a pivotal role in organizing the Special Conference on Security in Mexico in 2003 and collaborated with the Cardoso Group in 2003, contributing to the establishment of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), where Mexico held the Cooperation Secretariat. Furthermore, she was involved in the First Meeting of the Intersecretarial Commission of the Puebla Panama Plan in 2004.

Her scholarly contributions are noteworthy, with publications like "Latin America in the era of globalization" (UNAM, 2000), a presentation on Latin America at the XXIII Congress of the Latin American Association of Sociology in Guatemala in 2001, and a work titled "Migration: priority issue of the Mexico-United States bilateral agenda, origins, development, and possible policies of the Mexican government" (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, 2002). She also compiled the book "Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace" of 1945 (SRE, 2003).

Recognized for her academic achievements, she has been honored with the "Medal of University Merit" at the doctoral level in Social Sciences and International Relations from the Metropolitan Autonomous University. In addition, she has delivered keynote addresses at esteemed educational institutions and think tanks, including Lund University in Sweden, the Cervantes Institute of Stockholm, and the Technological Institute of Monterrey, among others.