Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro

Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro built parallel careers as a diplomat and a writer. He studied Hispanic literature at UNAM and El Colegio de México, and diplomatic studies at the Matías Romero Institute. Entering the foreign service in 1993, he worked on political and press affairs in Costa Rica, advised senior ministry officials, and directed cultural affairs. From 2007 to 2011 he headed the ministry's North America directorate. ¹

He served as deputy chief of mission in London before moving to the Washington embassy in early 2015. During the vacancy following Eduardo Medina Mora's departure, he served as chargé d'affaires. He became consul-general in Montreal in 2016. In 2023, the Senate approved his appointment as ambassador to Ethiopia, with additional African accreditations subject to the receiving governments' agreement. ^{1, 2, 3}

His fiction includes El hombre bajo la piel, which addresses migration, and the crime novel Alfil, los tres pecados del elefante. He won the San Luis Potosí national short story award in 1999, and Alfil received the special jury prize in the 2017 Akrón crime novel competition. ^{4, 1}