In August 2019, Ambassador López became the Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations, New York.
[4] [5] In June 2021, Ambassador López was elected Chair of the 4th Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) of the United Nations General Assembly, for its 76th Session.
[6][7] From 2013 to 2016, she served as Counsellor -later promoted to Minister Counsellor- at the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York.
[8] At the Graduate Institute for International Development Studies, she completed a dissertation on gender parity in the Salvadoran Foreign Service (2018).
[9] Ambassador López’s native language is Spanish, she speaks English, French and Portuguese.