Juan Ramón de la Fuente is the secretary of foreign affairs of Mexico, a position to which he was appointed by President Claudia Sheinbaum and ratified by the senate. A psychiatrist, academic, writer and diplomat, he was most recently Mexico’s ambassador to the United Nations, from 2019 to 2023. There, he chaired the Security Council and the Conference on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. De la Fuente is an emeritus professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he was previously rector. He was Mexico’s secretary of health from 1994 to 1999. Author of 14 books and hundreds of articles, he earned Mexico’s National Prize for Arts and Sciences as well as honorary doctorates from over 20 universities in Europe, Latin America, Canada and the United States.