Jorge Argüello is the president of the Fundación Embajada Abierta. He previously served as ambassador of Argentina to Portugal and Cape Verde. Prior to that, he was ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2012 and served as the permanent representative of Argentina to the UN from 2007 to 2011. While at the UN, he was president of the Group of 77 and China, president of the Latin American and Caribbean Group, president of the Parliamentarians for Global Action Committee, president of the working group on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, and chairman of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization. As a national deputy from 1991 to 1995 and again from 2003 to 2007, Argüello served as chairman of both the Foreign Relations Committee and the Parliamentary Observatory on the Malvinas Issue. He has served the City of Buenos Aires as deputy and city councilman. Argüello earned a law degree from the National University of Buenos Aires and a master’s in administration and public policy from the University of San Andrés.