Mr. Osvaldo-Patricio Alvarez-Perez’s involvement in national, regional, and international policy-making and environmental governance in the chemicals and hazardous wastes field began in 2006 when he was appointed Officer-in-charge of Chemicals and Waste Conventions by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department for the Environment). From 2007 to 2009, he served as a co-chair of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Cooperation and Coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions.

As a Foreign Service Officer, he has been posted at the Mission of Chile to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva and New York. He has also served at the Embassy of Chile in Canada and Costa Rica.

As of 16 December 2018, he is the Consul General of Chile to Hong Kong and Macau SAR.

In March 2011, he was appointed Head of the Department for the Environment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Santiago, Chile, and later Head of the Department of the Hazardous Chemicals and Waste cluster.

He has actively participated or coordinated for the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries in the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel Convention (COP-8, COP-9, COP-10, COP-11, COP-13, and COP-14), Rotterdam Convention (COP-3, COP-4, COP-5, COP-6, COP-8, and COP-9) and Stockholm Convention (COP-3, COP-4, COP-5, COP-6, COP-8, and COP-9). This role also included IFCS FORA V and VI, ICCM-2, and the Basel Convention OEWG V, OEWG VI, and OEWG VII.

He served as President of the Basel Convention COP-15, President of the Rotterdam Convention COP-9, President of the Stockholm Convention COP-6, Vice-president of the International Conference on Chemicals Management 2 and 3, and re-elected Vice-president to the Basel Convention COP-9.

On 25 May 2022, he was elected Vice-president of the Minamata Convention COP-5. The fifth Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention will likely be held in November 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.

And on 17 June 2022, he was elected Vice-president of the Rotterdam Convention COP-11. The eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention will likely be held in May or June 2023 in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

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