New York, NY June 24th, 2016
Press Release
CONSUL GENERAL OF MEXICO IN NEW YORK TAKES UP DUTIES
- Strengthen relations with local authorities, as well as business and community organizations in the region; efficient consular services and the empowerment of the Mexican community; and the promotion of Mexico as a country of economic, tourism, gastronomical, scientific, academic, cultural and artistic achievement, will be his priorities.
- The appointment of Diego Gomez Pickering reaffirms the commitment of the Mexican Government to consolidate México as an actor with global responsibility
As well as being a foreign affairs specialist, writer and journalist, Consul General Gomez Pickering, was previously appointed as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Diplomatic Representative of Mexico to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 2013 to 2016. He has also before collaborated with President Peña Nieto, and from December 2012 worked as the Director for Foreign Media within the Office of the Presidency. Moreover, he was head of Foreign Press Coordination for both President Peña Nieto´s presidential campaign and throughout his transition period as President elect.
He holds a B.A. in International Relations from ITAM, an M.A. on the same subject from the University of Columbia as well as a Postgraduate degree in Development Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
He has worked as a journalist for CNN in Mexico City and the Americas edition of the Wall Street Journal, in addition to spending time as an international correspondent for Panamanian newspaper La Prensa, as well as working for various other Mexican and Hispano-American publications such as Reforma, Excelsior and El Universal in the U.S., Mexico, East Africa and the Middle East.
He has worked as a consultant and advisor to agencies of the United Nations, including UNESCO, the United Nations’ Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development, the International Labour Organisation, the Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination and the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Additionally, he spent time with the Mexican Foreign Service. In 2007 he was based in Nairobi, Kenya, where he worked as the Mexican Embassy´s cultural attaché. Said Diplomatic Mission represented Mexico to six neighbouring countries and was a focal point of the United Nations’ Human Settlements Programme; HABITAT.
He has published and edited more than a dozen books of prose and fiction, both individually and as part of collaborative works, such as Los Jueves en Nairobi (Thursday’s in Nairobi, 2010), and La Primavera de Damasco (Spring in Damascus, 2013). His work has been translated in to English, French, Swahili, Arabic and Russian.
He has published numerous editorials and academic and journalistic articles over the past 16 years for various publications from Mexico, Latin America, Spain and the U.S.A., such as Foreign Affairs, the Journal of International Affairs and Letras Libres.
Gomez Pickering is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German.