Francesc Claret

Francesc Claret is delegate of the Catalan Government in United Kingdom and Ireland. During the last 25 years he has been United Nations official, where he started to work in 1997 as an official of political matters in the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs in New York. He has worked both from the headquarters in New York and in various UN missions and regional offices in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Most recently, he was the chief of staff in the Regional Office of the United Nations for Verification Mission in Colombia, Medellín (2016-2021). In 2021 he was appointed chief of staff of the Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Colombia and head of the Verification Mission in Bogotá. He holds a degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and doctoral student in Law from the University of Leiden. He has a diploma in Human Rights from the Catalan Institute of Human Rights and the Council of Europe, a postgraduate degree in International and European Relations from the University of Amsterdam and a master’s in law from the University of Sussex.