Head Consul Ivan Sierra
Head Consul of Mexico in St. Paul, United States
Ivan Roberto Sierra Medel is the fifth Consul of Mexico in Saint Paul since its establishment in 2005. As a career diplomat he has worked for Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) since 1993 and has the rank of Ambassador since 2017.
In the SRE, Ambassador Sierra worked at the Direction General for the Pacific, the Direction General for Technical and Scientific Cooperation, and the General Coordination of Advisors. From 2019 to 2021, he was the Executive Director of the Institute of the Mexicans Abroad (IME). In addition, he has worked as an advisor for international affairs at the Office of the President of the Republic. He has been posted at the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento, California, and to the Mexican embassies in Panama and Malaysia. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Ambassador to Guyana, concurrent with CARICOM.
Ambassador Sierra has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Russian Literature and Philology from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as a Master’s Degree in Diplomatic Studies from the Matías Romero Institute of the SRE.
He has been a professor at the Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute; at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM); at the Inter-American Center for Social Security Studies of the University of the Americas-Mexico City; and at the University of Guadalajara. He has published 30 papers on foreign policy and international cooperation.
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