María
Fernanda
Espinosa
Garcés

Former President of the United Nations General Assembly, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Ecuador

Global Preventive Diplomacy Initiative (GPDI) is a strategic effort to advance early action, constructive dialogue, and multilateral cooperation amid growing global instability. Co-chaired by H.E. Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Foreign and Defense Minister of Ecuador, and H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremić, President of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, this initiative responds to the growing need for new structured and proactive conflict-prevention strategies within the international system.