Interview with Elayne Whyte Gómez, nuclear ban treaty negotiating conference president
Channel: Pressenza español
Date: 2019-07-29

Elayne Whyte Gómez is a Costa Rican diplomat and academic with extensive experience in human rights, disarmament, regional integration and management of international organizations. She was the President of the United Nations Conference that negotiated the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017.
We asked Elayne about her work as the Ambassador for Costa Rica at the Mission in Geneva, the experience of chairing the conference negotiating the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the role of women and civil society in that process, and the lessons learned from bringing the Ban Treaty into being.