Diana Maria Oliveros Martinez

Diana María Oliveros was born and raised in Mexico City. She is a career diplomat at the Mexican Foreign Service since September 2017. On December 2017 she was appointed as Consul of Community Outreach at the Consulate of Mexico in Seattle. In this position, she is in charge of programs to improve Mexican nationals livelihoods, with particular emphasis in health, education and financial inclusion. Initiatives led by Ms. Oliveros cover a wide range, from exploring ways to improve access to to behavioral health services for farmworkers, to creating a network of STEM professionals to help Latinx people gain and sustain positions that companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and other alike offer in the IT sector of the Puget Sound area.

Before becoming a Career Diplomat, Ms. Oliveros Martinez worked for international organizations in cooperation projects covering Latin America and the Caribbean, with a special focus on economic development. She coordinated the Cooperation Program between the United Nations Development Program and the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation for Development, where she supervised consultancy studies aimed at analyzing local initiatives for international cooperation and the implementation of the Agenda 2030. She also worked for the International Trade Center, participating as a member of the United Nations Country Team (Mexico). There she collaborated in the design of the development assistance frameworks for Mexico and Nicaragua.

Ms. Oliveros Martínez completed a B.A. on International Relations at Tec de onterrey, where she graduated with Honors in 2009. She also obtained a MSc. degree on Local Economic Development at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2015. In order to obtain the degree, she wrote a quantitative dissertation about Mexican migrants in the United States, their participation in the informal economy and the impact on local entrepreneurship in their communities of origin.