Julia Hyatt appointed new Jamaican ambassador to Mexico
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Career-diplomat Julia Hyatt has been appointed Jamaica’s next ambassador to Mexico City.
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith announced the selection on Wednesday (May 15) in a media release naming Jamaica’s 12th head of mission based in Mexico City, since the Jamaican Embassy first opened in 1967.
The ambassador-designate is expected to assume duties next month and will have jurisdiction for Jamaica’s relations with other countries in the Central American region, including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
Hyatt has been a member of Jamaica’s foreign service for more than 34 years, and currently serves as under-secretary with responsibility for the Bilateral, Regional and Hemispheric Affairs Division.
According to Senator Johnson Smith, “Ms Hyatt is a well-seasoned and dedicated foreign service officer, who brings to the position over 34 years’ of experience in multilateral, regional and bilateral diplomacy. I am confident that she will use the opportunity of this new diplomatic assignment to strengthen the good relations and cooperation between Jamaica and Mexico.”
During her tenure in the foreign service, Hyatt served as First Secretary/Consul in the Jamaican Mission in Geneva; Counsellor and Chargé d’Affaires at the Jamaican Embassy in Mexico City; Minister-Counsellor/Deputy Chief of Mission at the Jamaican Embassy in Beijing; Alternate Representative at the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC and Director of International Organizations Department at the ministry’s headquarters in downtown Kingston.
She holds a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish from the University of the West Indies, Mona.
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