Francisco Tudela

Francisco Antonio Gregorio Tudela van Breugel-Douglas (born 20 July 1955)[1] is a Peruvian scholar, diplomat and politician.

A former Fujimorist politician and diplomat, he briefly served as the First Vice President of Peru between 28 July 2000 to 21 November 2000, during the brief third term of Alberto Fujimori and also as a Congressman between 2000 and 2001.

[2] He studied at Colegio Maristas San Isidro, the Pontifical and Civil Theological Faculty of Lima and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), where he obtained an LL.B.

In 1992, Tudela was elected as a member of the Democratic Constituent Congress and served between 1992 and 1995 under the National Renewal party of Rafael Rey.

It also managed to agree between the parties, in Buenos Aires, on 19 June 1996, the role of the guarantor countries of the Rio de Janeiro Protocol, which would be governed exclusively within the terms of the treaty.

In 1999, he was appointed Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations, serving in that position and as president of the Latin American Group (GRULA) at the UN until 2000.

Tudela is a member of the Madrid Forum, an international alliance organized by Spanish political party Vox that comprises right-wing and far-right individuals.

On 4 September 1997, the National University of Piura conferred on him the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa for the important services rendered to Peru as Minister of Foreign Relations.

In November 1997 he transferred to Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.