page_title: Jorge Argüello
section_title: Life and public service
hierarchical_section_title: Jorge Argüello / Life and public service
caption_attribution_description: Español: Washington DC. 17-1-2012. Obama recibió a Argüello durante veinte minutos en su despacho de la Casa Blanca.
context_page_description: Jorge Martín Arturo Argüello is an Argentine politician and diplomat. He is the Ambassador of Argentina to the United States.
  Argüello served as Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations between 2007 and 2011, and was designated Ambassador of Argentina to the United States during 2011-2013. In 2013 was appointed Ambassador of Argentina to Portugal.
context_section_description: Argüello was born in Córdoba in 1956 as the first of four children by Jorge Marcelo Argüello Varela and Raquel Luque Colombres. He graduated from Rochester Community High School, Rochester, Indiana, in 1974, and returned to Argentina, where he enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires and earned a Law degree in 1985. He later earned a master's degree in Administration and Public Affairs at the University of San Andrés (Argentina), and authored numerous articles and books on democratic participation. Argüello married lawyer Marcela Millán, divorced and then remarried with journalist Erika Grinberg, and has a son and three daughters.
  He entered public service upon his election in 1987 to the Buenos Aires City Council, and served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies between 1991 and 1995. Argüello served as host organizer in 1994 of the first official visit to Argentina of a British Parliamentary delegation since the Falklands War twelve years earlier, and later represented Latin America countries in the 1994-95 meeting of the Parliamentarians for Global Action. In 1996, he was elected in the convention of Buenos Aires City (Convención Constituyente) called in 1996 to write the Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires. Between 1997 and 2003 he served as deputy of the newly established Buenos Aires City Legislature in two successive periods (1997-2000 and 2000-2003).
  In 2003, Argüello was again elected to the Chamber of Deputies and he became Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and in that capacity organized the office of the Parliamentary Monitor for the Falkland Islands (Observatorio Parliamentario Cuestión Islas Malvinas). In 2007, he was appointed by President Nestor Kirchner as Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations. In that capacity Argüello served as Vice President of the Peace and Security Committee of Inter-Parliamentary Union in 2006 and 2007. He was Chairman of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization in 2008, and president of the Group of 77 and China for their 2011 session. In November 2011, Arguello was designated as Ambassador of Argentina to the United States, and his credentials were formally accepted on December 1.
  In March 2013, was designated as Ambassador of Argentina to Portugal.
caption: Argüello with U.S President Barack Obama.
exif: {"Image Copyright": "This photograph is provided by THE WHITE HOUSE as a courtesy and may be printed by the subject(s) in the photograph for personal use only. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not otherwise be reproduced, disseminated or broadcast, without the written permission of the White House Photo Office. This photograph may not be used in any commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."}