Juan José Gómez-Camacho

Juan José Gómez-Camacho is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he is also a professor and lecturer on global challenges and on North America. He provides strategic advice to companies, mainly on Mexico and North America. He advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on ongoing efforts to improve prevention, preparedness, and reaction to global health threats after COVID-19.

In June 2022, he concluded a 34-year career as a diplomat, during which he served as Ambassador of Mexico to Canada (2019–22); Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (2016–19); Ambassador to the European Union as well as to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (2013–16); Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations based in Geneva, Switzerland (2009–13); and Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore and, concurrently, to the Union of Myanmar and the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam (2006–09). He served as Director General for Human Rights and Democracy at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000–06). He also served at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the Organization of American States (1997–2000) and at the Embassy of Mexico to the United Kingdom (1994–97).

During his more than three decades as a diplomat, Ambassador Gómez-Camacho led many international negotiations, including as one of the two co-chairs that presided over and led the drafting, negotiation, and adoption of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration as well as the creation of the pandemic influenza preparedness framework at WHO, after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. As Ambassador of Mexico to the European Union and later to Canada, he was involved in the renegotiation of the Mexico-EU Free Trade Agreement, and on the North American Free Trade Agreement, now the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. He holds a BA in law from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and an LLM in international law from Georgetown University.