Eduardo Enrique Reina is the newly nominated Ambassador to the United States.  

Ambassador Reina is a former Vice Minister of Foreign Relations and, since September of 2008, has held the dual position of private secretary to President Manuel Zelaya and Minister of Communication.

He was nominated to this post by the constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, in July of 2009.
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I. Personal Data
Name: Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia

Date of birth: December 9, 1968.

Espouse: Karen Patricia Cis Rosales

Daughter and Sons : Maria Montserrat Reina Tirado (20 years), Eduardo Enrique Reina Tirado (12 years) and David Adrian Reina Cis (15 months)

II. Education

2000-2001 Post-graduate degree, Foreign Service Programme, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. (2000’-2001)

1987-1994 Graduate in Law with Orientation International Public Law; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

1985-1985 High school, Maria Montessori, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

1975-1984 Primary and Secondary School, San José del Carmen, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

III. Summary of Professional skills and/or expertise

▪ Field of Expertise

International Relations, Politics, Diplomacy, National Law and International Law; Central American Integration; organization of international events; preparation of documents, treaties and declarations; know-how in the internal functioning of the European Union, International Organizations, International Cooperation, Honduran Public Administration and Lobbing; Experience working with civil society organization, vulnerable groups and the private sector; participation in technical meetings at the international and national level.

▪ Professional Training

Seminar on WTO and Trade, sponsored by OAS-IDB. Georgetown University.

Seminar for Latin America on Intellectual Property Rights Themes WTO-IDB/INTAL
Dominican Republic

Course on conciliation and negotiation under the “Central American Mechanism of Difference Settlement”, San Salvador

Seminar on Globalisation and Development, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Brussels and Berlin.

Seminar on Multilateral Negotiations, Cligendael, Diplomatic Academy, The Netherlands

Workshop on Maritime Boundaries Delimitation, and Negotiation of Disputes, University of Durham, United Kingdom.

Central American seminar on Foreign Trade through the Diplomatic Mission and Professionalization of their Officials, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile; Managua, Nicaragua.

Seminar on Political Strategies sponsored by the Friederich Nauman Foundation, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Central American Seminar for the II Trade Forum European Union-Central America, City of Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

Seminar on the Acceleration of Business in the Energy Sector in Emergent Markets”, Corporation for the Development of the Commonwealth (CDC), London, United Kingdom.

Seminar on International Changes in the Diplomacy for the XXI century”, Sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel, Jerusalem

Seminar of the United Nations “The Future of the International Cooperation for
Development, new challenges for Communication”, Brussels, Belgium

Spring Seminar of the Group of Latin American Missions in Brussels Introduction to the European Union”, Brussels, Belgium

Seminar “Business Opportunities for the Agricultural Industry of Latin America”, Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Cycle of Seminars on Politics, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Honduras

IV. Summary of relevant work experience

September 2008-June 2009 Press Minister and Particular Secretary of the Presidency of Honduras.

January 2006-August 2008 Deputy Foreign Minister of Honduras.

July 2004-July 2005 World Bank Legal Consultant for National Institute of Tourism, for the Bay Island Biding process of the Cruise Terminal in Roatan.

July 2004-December 2005: Inter-American Development Bank (FIDE) Competitiveness Development Programme, Independent Consultant for the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Honduras, for the legal implementation of Trade Agreements.

July 2004 Independent Consultant to the UNDP for the preparation of the Internal Rules of Procedure for the (UNDP) National Report on Human Development .

June and July 2004: UNDP- Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the following up of the request of legal recognition of most vulnerable groups, specially HSH-Gays, and support for the creation for the Network of Human Rights, and advocacy for other groups as people living with HIV/AIDS, and Commercial Sex Workers.

June and July 2004: Policy Project US-AID for the redaction of a legal study on the Honduran Law violation of Human Rights on most vulnerable groups HSH-GAYS and HIV/AIDS.

February and March : German Cooperation Agency Independent Consultant for the institutional strengthening of most vulnerable groups on HIV/AIDS.

October 2004 to May 2005: Technical assistance and advisory as negotiator un the DR-CAFTA-US on the VII, VIII and IX negotiation rounds, in the Labour Environment, and Services Chapters of the Agreement, Additionally with the legal revision of the text IDB Bank and Ministry of Trade.

October 2003 to May 2004

Advisor on Trade Policy for the Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada in the negotiation rounds of DR-CAFTA-US and FTA with Canada, Trade Promotion, WTO related themes and participation in the preparation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy for Honduras, among others.

2002 to 2004

UNDP Independent Consultant in Honduras, advising the following organizations or associations on Institutional strengthening: HIV/AIDS National Forum, the Forum for the Strengthening of Democracy, the Honduran Foundation for the fight against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the Asociation of People Living with AIDS in Honduras (ASONAPVSIDAH), Commission for Transparency of Santa Rosa; Centre for the Garinagu Culture (Afro-Caribean); Commercial Sex Workers and HSH-Gay community.

2002 to date

Barrister and Parter of “Bufete Azcona, Reina & Rojas Carón”, in Tegucigalpa Honduras.

2002

Advisor to the Special Sovereignty Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1999 to 2002
Personal Advisor of the Minister Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Honduras, Tegucigalpa , Honduras.

1999
Director of Exports and Investments, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

1997 to 1998
Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Honduras in London, to the Court of Saint James.

1998
In charge of the Consular Section of the Embassy of Honduras in London.

1995 to 1997
Counsellor of the Embassy of Honduras to the European Union, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Great Duche of Luxemburg

1994 to 1995
First Secretary, Embassy of Honduras to the European Union, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Great Duche of Luxemburg

1992 to 1993
Head of the Department of Computer Graphics, TV Productions Ville-Ferr, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

1990 to 1993
Legal Assistant, Valladares-Reina Legal Practice, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Member of the Honduran Government Delegations and preparation works attending different meetings and summits:

- Head of Delegation for the Oral Phase on the ICJ case of Maritime Boundaries delimitation and Islands. Nicaragua against Honduras.

- Presidential Sub commissioner for Plan Puebla Panama
- Within the UN and International Organizations

The 55th and 54th period of Sessions of the General Assembly of United Nations; The Millennium Summit, United Nations; The 14th Session of the Council of the International Sugar Organization; The 75th and 74th Period of Sessions of the Council of the International Coffee Organization; The Council of the International Grains Organization; The International Conference for the Total prohibition of Antipersonnel Mines; The first Conference of Parties Estates of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; Sessions of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; The XIII Conference of Ministers of the NOAL Movement; The I, II, III, IV and V Sessions of the Technical Committee of Rules of Origin, in the World Customs Organization; The Council of Governors of the Fund Common Fund of Commodities; The Technical Committee of Fight against the Fraud in the World Customs Organization; The World Conference on Hunger and Poverty.

Within the Central American Integration System

Summit of Presidents of the Dialogue of Tuxtla (Central America-Mexico);
The council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Central American System of Integration (SICA) and for the technical meetings; The VIII Meeting of the Commission For Security of Central America; The XVI, XV, XIII, XII, XVI Ministerial Conferences “San José” between the European Union and Central America; The IX and VII Joint Commissions, European Union -Central America; The First Trade Forum, European Union-Central America; The IV Sub Joint Commission European Union-Central America; The Summit of Heads of State and Government of Central America, Belize and the Dominican Republic.

Other Meetings

The II Meeting of following up of the EU-Latin America and the Caribbean Summit; The IX and VII Institutionalised Ministerial Meeting between the European Union and the Rio Group; The Meeting of Coordinators of the Rio Group; The Summit of Head of State and Government Between the EU-Latin America and the Caribbean, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and its technical group; The XVI Meeting of the Group for Revision and implementation of Summit of the Americas (GRIC), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Of the Dominican Republic. The Inter-parliamentary Conference between the European Parliament- Latin American Parliament.

Publications
Contributions the Law of Maritime Spaces of Honduras and the establishment of the Base Lines of Base by the Government of Honduras. Book Boundaries of Honduras, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., 2001.

Articles on national politics, Revista Politica Hondureña.

Other Activities

Columnist of the Honduran Newspaper “La Tribuna” since January 2002.

Lecturer on Geopolitics and borders disputes for the Colegio Nacional de Defensa

Member of the Colegio de Abogados de Honduras.

Member of the Honduran Athletics’ team in Hammer Throwing (Central American Champion 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997.Third Place in 2006