<h6><strong>Eduardo González/Juan David Latorre</strong></h6> <h4><strong>Bernardo Greiver will assume the post of Uruguay's ambassador to Spain next Monday, February 2nd, replacing Ana Teresa Ayala, as reported by the Embassy to <em>The Diplomat.</em></strong></h4> Born in Montevideo, with a degree in International Relations from the University of the Republic and training at the Artigas Institute of the Foreign Service of the Diplomatic Academy of Uruguay, Greiver joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989. His appointment as Uruguay's ambassador to Spain was announced in May 2025 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mario Lubetkin. After holding various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the UN, in 1999 he began working at the Office of the President of the UN General Assembly and, from that year until 2001, served in the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2002 and 2006, he was Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of Uruguay in Mexico, and between 2008 and 2009, he simultaneously served as Director General for Cultural Affairs, Director General for International Cooperation, and Acting Director of the Artigas Institute of the Foreign Service. He was Uruguay's Ambassador to Israel for two terms, from 2009 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022. In between, from 2015 to 2017, he was Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 2023, he was Deputy Director General for Political Affairs. Between 2024 and 2025, he served as Director General for Border, Boundary, and Maritime Affairs, and since 2025, as Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Throughout his career, he has represented Uruguay in a wide variety of multilateral forums and high-level summits, such as the OAS Conference on Hemispheric Security, the Fifth Ministerial Summit of the World Trade Organization, the Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of Latin America and the European Union, the Extraordinary General Assembly for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the UN, the ministerial meetings of MERCOSUR, the Andean Community (CAN), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the OAS, and the Intergovernmental Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CICAD), and the Commemorative Meeting for the 20th Anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, among others. He also actively participated in the negotiations that led to the approval and entry into force of the Free Trade Agreements between Uruguay and Mexico and between Uruguay and Israel. In fact, when proposing his appointment, the government of Yamandú Orsi valued Bernardo Greiver's negotiation and management skills in opening up trade opportunities, especially in Spain, a country that has positioned itself as the main champion of Latin American interests in Europe. Furthermore, Bernardo Greiver will assume his post just two weeks after the signing of the Association Agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, which has received the strong support of the Spanish government and aims to liberalize more than 90% of trade in goods between the two blocs. In this context, the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Alfredo Fratti, recently held a working meeting with Greiver to coordinate the new ambassador's trade agenda in Madrid.
