Carmen Dominguez
Special Advisor
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
About
Carmen Dominguez is the special advisor to the High Commissioner of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Switzerland. Before that, she was Deputy Representative of the Chilean Mission to the UN in New York City. Carmen was previously Director of Strategic Planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. Until recently, she was the Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the Mid Career Master in Public Administration program. Until July 2013, she served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Carmen has mainly worked in the economic and trade area, dealing with issues such as energy, fisheries, mining and decentralization, regional integration initiatives and international development. A career foreign service officer, she has worked extensively as a trade negotiator in Washington and Geneva and has been a top trade adviser to the Chilean Foreign Minister and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Foreign Minister, dealing with political and trade affairs between Chile and its Latin American neighbors.