Elisenda Vives Balmaña

Elisenda Vives Balmaña is an Andorran diplomat who has served as the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since November 2015.

[1] Vives was a professor of geography and history[2] before working for the principality's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1992 until 2001.

[1][2] Vives was appointed Andorra's Permanent Representative to the UN by Prime Minister Antoni Martí on 3 November 2015.

[2] On 30 November 2016, Vives and her Sri Lankan counterpart A. Rohan Perera signed a joint communique establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.

[3][4] Vives is married and speaks four languages - Catalan, Spanish, French and English.