Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre is a career diplomat with more than three decades of experience in multilateral, regional, and bilateral diplomacy, currently serving as the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations in New York and as Chair of the Group of 77 and China.
She has previously served as Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (2018–2021), Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other specialized organizations in Geneva, where she became the first woman to preside over the UN Human Rights Council (2011–2012).