The Diplomat
Peru’s new ambassador to Spain, Walter Francisco Gutiérrez Camacho, has already taken office after presenting on Monday his Copies of Letters of Credence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Chief of Protocol, María Sebastián de Erice.
Gutiérrez, as reported by The Diplomat, replaces Ambassador Óscar José Ricardo Maúrtua de Romaña, who resigned after the failed ‘self-coup’ of President Pedro Castillo in December last year and was dismissed by the Dina Boluarte government at the end of January. Maúrtua was only in office for seven months, since June 2022.
Until 2021, Gutiérrez was the Ombudsman, after being elected in 2016 by the Congress of the Republic of Peru for a five-year term.
According to the Peruvian Government’s website, Ambassador Gutiérrez conveyed, in the act of delivery of the copies of his Credentials, “the firm commitment of the Peruvian Government and the Embassy of Peru in Spain, to continue working for the strengthening, deepening and diversification of our bilateral relationship, increasing the channels of cooperation and strengthening the economic, commercial, cultural and social ties between Peru and Spain.”
Walter Gutiérrez is a lawyer from the Universidad de San Martín de Porres, holds a diploma in Human Rights from the Academy of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the American University Washington College of Law and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. He has a master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Lima, doctorate studies at the University of Seville and a postgraduate diploma in Civil Law from the University of Salamanca.
He has been president of the Court of Honor of the Ethical Electoral Pact in the process of General Elections for the Presidency of the Republic (2016) and president of the Court of Honor of the Ethical Electoral Pact in the Municipal Elections Process (2014).
He was dean of the Lima Bar Association during 2008 and 2009, and president of the Board of Deans of the Peruvian Bar Associations, during the same periods.
He was also president of the commission in charge of drafting the Preliminary Draft of the Code of Consumer Protection and Defense (2009) and advisor of the commission in charge of drafting the Preliminary Draft of the Law for the Reform of the Peruvian Civil Code (1997-1999).
