INTERNATIONAL 17th August 2010

Colombian President-Elect Juan Manuel Santos has named Nestor Osorio, the current Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization, as Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, local reports said in mid-August.

Osorio, who has many years of experience representing Colombia at the ICO, has also been Colombian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, and an advisor on coffee matters to the Colombian government.

He has been ICO Executive Director since 2002, when he became the first non-Brazilian to hold that post.

Pictured: Nestor Osorio participates on a panel at Wonderful Coffee Cologne in 2009 (photo by Charles Prager)