Hugo Llorens
| Hugo Llorens | |
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| United States Ambassador to Honduras | |
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In office September 19, 2008 – July 26, 2011 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Charles A. Ford |
| Succeeded by | Lisa Kubiske |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 7, 1954 Cuba |
Hugo Llorens (born September 7, 1954) is an American diplomat, and the former United States Ambassador to Honduras (2008-2011). Posted to a variety of countries in his thirty-year career, in 2002-03 he was the principal advisor to the President and National Security Advisor on issues pertaining to Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador.
Born in Cuba in 1954, He came to the United States at the age of seven in April 1962 as part of Operation Peter Pan.
Llorens obtained a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in 1977. He then went on to receive a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England in 1980. In 1997 he gained a Master of Science in National Security Studies from the National War College.
Llorens worked as an Assistant Treasurer at the Chase Manhattan Bank, International Division, New York City, before joining the United States Department of State in 1981.
Llorens served as Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Policy and Summit Coordination in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, in which capacity he "played an important role in the launch of the historic Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations in 1998". From 1999 to 2002 Llorens served for three years as Principal Officer at the United States Consulate General in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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