Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
The Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations is the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Colombia to the United Nations, accredited as Concurrent Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, and Montenegro.
The Permanent Representative is Colombia's foremost diplomatic representative to UN, and Chief of Mission in New York City. The Permanent Representative however, is not the only high-ranking Colombian diplomat in the United States, the other two being the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., and the Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, also in Washington D.C. The officeholder is charged with representing the interests of the President and Government of Colombia, and advancing the relations between Colombia and the general world community.
List of Permanent Representatives
The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:| # | Ambassadors | Years served |
| 1 | Alfonso López Pumarejo | 1946–1948 |
| 2 | Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez | 1948–1949 |
| 3 | Fernando Londoño y Londoño | 1949–1950 |
| 4 | Elíseo Arango Ramos | 1950–1952 |
| 5 | Carlos Echeverri Cortés | 1952–1953 |
| 6 | Evaristo Sourdis Juliao | 1953 |
| 7 | Francisco José Urrutia Holguín | 1953–1957 |
| 8 | Alfonso Araújo Gaviria | 1957–1961 |
| 9 | Germán Zea Hernández | 1961–1965 |
| 10 | Alfonso Patiño Rosselli | 1965–1967 |
| 11 | Julio César Turbay Ayala | 1967–1969 |
| 12 | Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez | 1969–1970 |
| 13 | Augusto Espinosa Valderrama | 1970–1973 |
| 14 | Aurelio Caicedo Ayerbe | 1973–1975 |
| 15 | Germán Zea Hernández | 1975–1977 |
| 16 | José Fernando Botero | 1977–1978 |
| 17 | Indalecio Liévano Aguirre | 1978–1982 |
| 18 | Carlos Sanz de Santamaría | 1982–1983 |
| 19 | Carlos Albán Holguín | 1983–1987 |
| 20 | Enrique Peñalosa Camargo | 1987–1990 |
| 21 | Fernando Cepeda Ulloa | 1991 |
| 22 | Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa | 1992–1994 |
| 23 | Julio Londoño Paredes | 1994–1998 |
| 24 | Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento | 1998–2004 |
| 25 | María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar | 2004–2006 |
| 26 | Claudia Blum Capurro | 2006–2010 |
| 27 | Néstor Osorio Londoño | 2010–2014 |
| 28 | María Emma Mejía Vélez | 2014–2018 |
| 29 | Guillermo Fernández de Soto | 2018–present |