Juan José Gómez Camacho

Camacho was appointed Mexican ambassador to Canada in 2019. He resigned from the post in May 2022 to take up a professorship at Johns Hopkins University.

In December 2013, he was appointed Ambassador of Mexico to the European Union and the Ambassador of Mexico to Belgium and Luxembourg. From August 2009 until December 2013 he was appointed Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations and other international organizations based in Geneva, Switzerland.

In addition, from January 2006 to August 2009 he was Ambassador of Mexico to Singapore, concurrent to the Union of Myanmar and the Sultanate of Brunei-Darussalam.

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other positions, he worked as Director General for Human Rights and Democracy (December 2000 to December 2005), where he implemented the modernization of Mexico’s foreign policy in the fields of human rights and democracy, and served as Mexico’s attorney of record on international human rights litigation. He was in charge of the legal affairs at the Mexican Embassy in the United Kingdom. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Director General for Human Rights and Democracy, he was responsible of the Mexican foreign policy in such issues, as well as Mexico's attorney for international disputes, among other positions.

A career diplomat, Gómez-Camacho joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1988. Since then, he has held different positions both within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and overseas.

Camacho joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1988.

Juan José Gómez Camacho (born October 6, 1964) is a Mexican diplomat. Ambassador Juan José Gómez-Camacho was appointed as Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations in New York in February 2016. From 2019 to 2022 he served as Mexican ambassador to Canada.