Federico Villegas Beltrán (born 24 March 1966) is an Argentine career diplomat.
[3] Villegas entered the Argentine foreign service in 1993, when he graduated from the Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación (ISEN).
[4] From 1993 to 1995, he formed part of the Foreign Ministry's Directorate for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs.
[4][6] During his tenure, he inaugurated Argentina's diplomatic headquarters in Maputo, and participated in the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme as Argentina headed the international experts group which led to the 2019 Peace and Reconciliation Accord.
[2] On 6 December 2021, he was elected president of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the year 2022, succeeding Fiji's Nazhat Shameem.