Director General
Name: Gustavo Machín Gómez
Date of birth: 10/12/1961
Education: Bachelor of International Political Relations
Foreign Language Skills: English
Additional education: Course on Internal Control, Diploma course on Public Administration
Career history:
1984-1989: Commercial Office in Panama
1989-1993: Official, Division of Latin America, MINREX
1993-1995: Second Secretary, Consular Affairs, Embassy of Cuba to Peru
1995-1997: Official, Department of the US. MINREX
1997-2002: First Secretary, SICW
2003-2004: Deputy Director of the Division of North America, MINREX
2004-2006: Director of the Division of North America, MINREX
2006-2010: Ambassador, Embassy of Cuba to Pakistan
2010-2010: First Secretary, Division of Communication and Information, MINREX
2010-2014: Director, International Press Center, MINREX
2014-2017: General Deputy Director, General Division of the United States
2017-2021: Ambassador, Embassy of Cuba to Spain
2021- today: Director-General, General Division of Political Planning, MINREX.
Phone Number: 7 836 4111
Email:
Secretariat
Laura Martínez
Phone Number: 7 836 4111
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Organization, Planning And Information Division
Director
Full name: Pedro Luis Despaigne González
Date of birth: 25/02/1968
Education: Bachelor of International Political Relations
Additional education: Postgraduate courses: US Politics and Economy; The Agenda of Hemispheric Security; Cuba and the international system of the end of the millennium; From the Gulf to Kosovo; US at the current situation; Venezuela: birth, peak and crisis of the Venezuelan miracle; Public relations: theory and practice. Master´s degree in International Relations. Daily academic course: lecturer 3rd seminar: Perspectives of Latin America and the Caribbean at the 21st century; Strategic dilemmas of unipolarity; Pedagogy for new professors; Advanced Windows course; Basic course on Humanitarian International Law; Advanced English language; course for Officials; Web layouts; Basic French language course; Basics on Economy.
Career history:
1994-2001 Information officer, CC PCC
2001-2004 Assistant Professor
2004-2007 Information officer, CC PCC
2007-2009 Second Secretary, Division of Sub-Saharan Africa, MINREX
2009-2013 Second Secretary, Embassy of Cuba to Nigeria
2013-2013 Second Secretary, Division of Sub-Saharan Africa, (DASS), MINREX
2013-2016 First Secretary, DASS, MINREX
2016-2021 Ambassador, Embassy of Cuba to Ghana
2021-today Director of Organization, Planning and Information.
Phone Number: 7 836 4409 / 7 836 4450
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Strategic Planning and Analysis Division
Director
Name: Luis Achkienasi Chernak
Date of birth: 3 June 1958
Education: Bachelor of International Relations from the Higher Institute of International Relations, ISRI (1982). Master´s degree in Management Consultancy from the University of Havana (2000)
Language: English.
Additional education: Postgraduate courses and diploma course on topics of security and international law, International Relations and Pedagogy, at different higher education institutions. Refresher course for graduates from the National Defense College (2018).
Career history:
1987: Official at the Department of Disarmament of the Division of Multilateral Affairs of the MINREX.
1987-1994: Third and Second Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.
1995-2018: Professor of different higher education institutions, including the Higher Institute of International Relations and the National Defense College. Teaching rank Assistant Professor, from September 2002 until present day.
Coauthor of the books: United States. Internal Dynamics and foreign policy (2003) and World Security Problems (2020, on edition). Author of different theoretical papers and articles on International Relations and International Security.
1997-2000: Researcher and collaborator of the Center for Hemispheric Studies on the United States (CEHSEU) of the University of Havana.
2019-2020: Specialist at the General Division of Political Planning (DGPP). Rank: Counselor.
2019-2020: Director a.i. of the above Division
Phone Number: 7 836 4409 / 7 836 4450
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