Laura Gil Savastano

H.E. Laura Gil Savastano, Ambassador of Colombia to Austria, and designed non-resident Ambassador to Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the International Organizations in Vienna since August 1st, 2023. H.E. Gil is an Internationalist committed to the defense of Human Rights and a Gender-transformative approach in Foreign Policy, with national and international experience in peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and democracy promotion, dedicated to the internationalization of Colombia through public service, private consultancy, and collaboration with both traditional and alternative media.

In 2022-2023, she served as Viceminister of Multilateral Affairs, a post in which she was responsible for coordinating and implementing Colombian positions before international organizations and other multilateral fora. She was Standford University’s Draper Hills Fellow 2015 and a National Endowment of Democracy Fellow 2020. She also became a well-known public figure working in political and international analysis for several Colombian media.

She won the Colegio de Periodistas Award for Op-ed Column 2014, the 2015 Law and Democracy Medal awarded by the Colombian Press Society, the 2017 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado Award granted by the Council of Bogota, and the Simón Bolivar Award 2019 for opinion.