Diego A. Tituaña Matango belongs to the Kichwa Otavalo community and joined the Ecuadorian Foreign Service as a career diplomat in 2012. He has extensive multilateral experience focused on human rights, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, sustainable development, and international cooperation.
From 2014 to 2019, he coordinated the UN General Assembly resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, achieving key milestones such as strengthening Indigenous participation at the UN and proclaiming 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. He also served as the principal negotiator for the UN resolution establishing the International Day of Solstice, promoting traditions like Inti Raymi.
His leadership roles include serving as Head of the Technical Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Imbabura (2020–2022), where he managed human mobility and foreign policy along Ecuador’s northern border. From 2022 to 2025, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Ecuador in the Dominican Republic. He currently works in the cabinet of the Vice Minister of International Cooperation in Quito.
Diego is a Yale Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow (2019) and a Draper Hills Summer Fellow at Stanford University (2021). He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Universidad San Francisco de Quito. In addition, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Advanced Studies in Human Rights at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
He has participated as an international panelist on Indigenous Peoples’ rights at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and various international organizations.