Miroslav Jenča (Slovakia)
Special Representative (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in ColombiaMr. Jenča brings to this position over 35 years of experience in diplomacy, mediation, leadership and oversight of UN peace operations, as well as close knowledge of the Colombian peace process and its regional and international context. He has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas in the United Nations Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations since 2019.
Prior to 2019, as Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Political Affairs, he covered the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, as well as the Decolonization Unit and the Division for Palestinian Rights. From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Jenča served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Previous posts in his diplomatic career include Director of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, Head of Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Centre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Ambassador and Representative of Slovakia to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union and Ambassador to Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.
Mr. Jenča holds a Doctor of Law degree (Doctor Juris) from Comenius University in Bratislava. He studied foreign trade at the University of Economics in Bratislava; diplomacy and international relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Master of Arts), and diplomacy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is fluent in English, Russian and Spanish.
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Claudia Mojica (El Salvador)
Deputy Special Representative (DSRSG) for the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia
Ms. Mojica brings to this position over 30 years of experience with the United Nations (UN), in several regions and across the peace and security, human rights and development fields, including in senior leadership roles. Currently serving as UN Resident Coordinator in Argentina since 2022, she previously worked on conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding in peace operations in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, and Haiti.
She also worked at UN Headquarters in Geneva and New York from where she supported the negotiations that led to Colombia’s 2016 Final Peace Agreement and the establishment of the Verification Mission in Colombia. Ms. Mojica served as Deputy Director of the Americas Division in the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (2016-2019), and as Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme in Chile (2019-2022).
Ms. Mojica holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in the United States. In addition to her native Spanish, she is fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole.