Ricardo Luna Mendoza

Ricardo Luna Mendoza studied politics at Princeton, graduating in 1962, and earned a master’s in international affairs at Columbia in 1964. He entered Peru’s diplomatic service in 1966. His multilateral career included work in Geneva on disarmament, trade and development, service as undersecretary for multilateral affairs, and representation at the United Nations in New York, where he was ambassador from 1989 to 1992. ^{1, 2}

As ambassador to the United States from 1992 to 1999, Luna worked on debt reduction, drug trafficking, human rights, and democratic consolidation. He also participated in the 1995–98 peace negotiations between Peru and Ecuador, following earlier involvement in Central American conflict resolution efforts. ^{1, 2}

Between 2000 and 2006 he concentrated on teaching and research, holding visiting appointments at institutions including Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Tufts. He returned to diplomacy as ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2006–10 and became foreign minister under Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2016, serving until 2018. That year he joined the Global Leadership Foundation, which later recorded his participation in a project in Central America. ^{2, 1}