Luis Almagro
Former Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
Luis Almagro is a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) from 2015 to 2025.
Almagro served as Uruguay’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 2005 to 2010. He had previously held different positions at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Almagro served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 under President José Mujica. After leaving government service, Almagro was elected Senator of the Republic in 2014 for the 48th Legislature and assumed his seat in March 2015.
Almagro was elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States on March 18, 2015, earning the support of 33 of the 34 Member States, including one abstention. He officially took office on May 26, 2015. On March 20, 2020, the OAS General Assembly re-elected him to office for a second term until May 2025.
Since June 2025, he has been the Director of the Observatory for Democracy of the CASLA Institute.