Hon. Hugo Llorens is a career Foreign Service Officer
who joined the State Department in 1981. His most recent
assignment was as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in Madrid, Spain,
where he took up his duties in 2006. Prior to serving in Madrid,
Mr. Llorens was the DCM in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he
served for three years until July 2006.
From 2002-2003, Mr. Llorens was Director of Andean Affairs at the
National Security Council, where he was the principal advisor to the
President and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on issues
pertaining to Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Prior
to the NSC, Mr. Llorens served for three years as Principal Officer
at the Consulate General in Vancouver, Canada.
Prior to Vancouver, Mr. Llorens was Deputy Director of the Office
of Economic Policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs where he
helped launch the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas negotiations
in 1998. As a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, he has
also served in Tegucigalpa, La Paz, Asunción, San Salvador, and
Manila. Prior to joining the Service, Mr. Llorens was a Treasurer at
the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
Mr. Llorens received his M.S. degree in National Security
Studies, National War College in 1997; M.A. in Economics, University
of Kent at Canterbury, England in 1980; and B.S. in Foreign Service
from Georgetown University in 1977.
Mr. Llorens has earned three Superior and six Meritorious Awards
from the Department of State. He is a past recipient of the Cobb
Award for excellence in the promotion of U.S. business, was
runner-up for the Saltzman Award for distinguished performance in
advancing U.S. international economic interests, and was runner-up
for the James Baker award for top Deputy Chief of Mission. He speaks
Spanish, Tagalog, and some French.
