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Angel Horna Author

Angel Horna is a lawyer and a career diplomat. He is currently an Adviser to the Cabinet of Peru’s Foreign Minister. He was the Legal Adviser of the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations in New York (2014-2019), including during Peru's last term on the UN Security Council (2018-2019). He was also the Vice-Chair of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly in the 72 session. Prior to that, he worked at the Peruvian Advisory Office for the Law of the Sea, during which time he took part in the preparation of Peru's participation in the oral proceedings of the Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile) before the ICJ. He was also part of the first training programme on dispute settlement established by the ITLOS.

He obtained a Ph.D. in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), in Switzerland; was trained for a senior civil service career at École nationale d’administration (ENA), in France; and got a summa cum laude law degree from the University of Lima (UL), in Peru. He has held teaching positions at the University of Lima, the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, and the University of San Ignacio de Loyola.