Alfredo Miranda is Ambassador of Mexico in Saudi Arabia and non-resident to Bahrein, Oman and Yemen. His previous assignment was as Ambassador in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Permanent Observer to the African Union.
He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico in 1982, where he worked in the Departments of Treaties; for Latin America and the Caribbean; and of American Regional Organisms and Mechanisms.
He is member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1990. He was the first Cooperation Attaché of Mexico to Central America, posted in the Embassy of Mexico in Costa Rica, from 1991 to 1996. He contributed to the definition of the institutional pillars of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development, as Alternate Representative in the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the Organization of American States, in Washington, D.C., from 1996 to 1999. As Alternate Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization from 2004 to 2008 in Paris, France, he negotiated multiple international agreements, amongst which is the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, in addition of having acted as Chargé d'affaires, a.i, for over a year. He was Deputy Head of Mission of Mexico in China 2008-2012, where he was appointed to act on numerous occasions as Chargé d'affaires, a.i.
In his latest responsibility at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 1999 to 2004, Ambassador Miranda was the Deputy National Coordinator of the Rio Group, the Latin America and Caribbean - European Union Summit, the Group of Three, the Summit of the Americas, and Alternate Representative of Mexico to the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In the academic sphere, from 1986 to 1990 he was Undergraduate Professor in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Aragon Campus, and during 2000 in the Ibero-American University, where he lectured in Latin American Politics and History; Foreign Policy of Mexico; and International Organizations. He is author of several publications about international relations.
He graduated in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and continued his postgraduate studies in Latin American Studies.
Ambassador Miranda was born on January 12th 1959 in Mexico City. He is married and has three children.