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María Fernanda Espinosa Profile, Early Life, Education, Awards, Achievements
UN President María Fernanda Espinosa Early Life, Education, Awards, International Achievements
Maria Fernanda Espinosa was born 7 September 1964 in Salamanca, Spain during a stay of her parents in the city. She is fluent This name uses Spanish naming Custom: the first or paternal family name is Espinosa and the second or maternal family name is Garcés.
She has been elected as President of the United Nation General Assembly for the 73rd session, office which will assume in early September 2018.
Espinosa holds a Doctor of Philosophy in environmental geography from Rutgers University in the United States.
She was also a post-She also has a postgraduate degree in Anthropology and Political Science from the Faculated Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales in Quito and a licentiate in Applied Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador In addition to that, she won the "First National Poetry Prize of Ecuador" in 1990.
Under President Raffle Correa, Espinosa was Minister for Foreign Affairs, Commerce, and Integration from January 2007 to December 2007.
In November 2012 she got the post of Minister of National Defense as incumbent Minister Miguel Carvajal stepped down to run for the National Assembly election of 2013.
In October 2014 Espinosa was named Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva.
