Norma Pensado Moreno
Norma Bertha Pensado Moreno (born May 1, 1958) is a Mexican career diplomat, a member of the since 1991. She currently serves as Ambassador of Mexico to Russia, and concurrently to Armenia and Belarus. She is the first woman to head the Mexican embassy in Russia. Education. Norma Pensado Moreno earned a licentiate in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Faculty of Economics in 1981 with the thesis "América Latina: Un difícil camino a la integración" (Latin America: A Difficult Road to Integration). She has taken courses on foreign policy and diplomacy, such as  Globalization and the New Global Economy at the Universities of Oxford, Yale, and Stanford, and "Políticas de Comercio Exterior en América Latina" (Foreign Trade Policies in Latin America) from ECLAC/UNCTAD/OAS/UNDP/. She is an associate member of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI). Diplomatic career. Pensado Moreno joined the in September 1991. At the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, she has served as Director of Academic Exchange and Scholarships in the General Directorate of Cultural Affairs (1992–1994), Director General for Europe (2004–2006), and Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean (2011–2012). In 2012, she was appointed Undersecretary  for Latin America and the Caribbean by President Felipe Calderón. Abroad, she has served as Alternate Representative in the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations based in Vienna (1994–1997), as Counselor in the Delegation of Mexico to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris (1998–2001), and as Head of Chancery at the Embassy of Mexico in Sweden (2001–2004). In 2006 she rose to the rank of ambassador and was appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, concurrently to the Republics of Latvia and Lithuania (2006–2011). Subsequently, she was appointed Ambassador to  the Republic of Finland, concurrently to the Republic of Estonia (2013–2017). Since 2017 she has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation, concurrently to the Republics of Armenia and Belarus. In 2018 she headed the assistance and consular protection actions of Mexicans during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, whose result and good performance was recognized by the Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union of Mexico. She has represented her country at numerous conferences and international meetings within the framework of the United Nations, the OECD, and organizations of the Inter-American System. She has participated  in various forums, both in Mexico and in European and Latin American countries, as a lecturer and panelist on international affairs, foreign policy in Mexico, and gender issues.