He served as Mexico’s Ambassador to Kenya, concurrently accredited to Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania, as well as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
He joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1999 and was assigned twice to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (2007-2011 and 2019-2023). On both occasions, he was part of Mexico’s team at the Security Council. During his first term, he served as a non-proliferation expert (2009-2010), and in his second, as Political Coordinator (2021-2022). He has also been a delegate responsible for disarmament and human rights issues.
In 2012, he was appointed by then-United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as an expert on the Security Council Committee on the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Committee 1540) for a five-year term. He has served as an advisor to the Undersecretariat for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2018), Deputy Consul at the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia (2011-2012), and delegate in charge of environmental and disarmament affairs at Mexico’s Permanent Mission to the International Organizations based in Geneva, Switzerland (1999-2007).
Enrique Ochoa holds a Master’s degree in Political Economy from the University of Essex, United Kingdom, and a Master’s in Diplomacy from the Matías Romero Institute. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Ibero-American University. He has published various articles on Mexico’s foreign policy. He speaks German, French, English, and Italian.