Director General
Name: Marcos Fermín Rodríguez Costa.
Date of birth: 7 July 1951
He graduated as Bachelor of Law from the University of Havana in 1981.
Further education: Postgraduate courses in the specialty of International Relations. Advanced Studies at the National Defense College (2009). Diploma in Public Administration from the Higher School for Government and State Cadres (2012).
Languages: English
Career:
1972-1974: Official at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP, by its Spanish initials).
1974-1979: Third Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba in the Republic of Iraq.
1979-1981: Official at the North Africa and Middle East Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1981-1986: First Secretary and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Cuba in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
1986-1991: Head of Department, North Africa and Middle East Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1991-1994: Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Cuba in the Republic of Zimbabwe.
1994: Person appointed to open the Embassy of Cuba in the Republic of South Africa after the triumph of Nelson Mandela and the establishment of relations between Cuba and South Africa. Chargé d’affaires ad interim of Cuba in South Africa.
1994-1995: Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Cuba in South Africa.
1995-1997: Deputy Director of the Subsaharan Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1997-1999: Director of the Subsaharan Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1999-2003: Ambassador of Cuba in the Republic of South Africa.
2003-2005: Director of the Subsaharan Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2005-2012: Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2012-2016: Ambassador of Cuba in Japan.
2016-2018: Ambassador. Director of the Organization, Planning and Analysis Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2019-present: Ambassador. Director General of the General Division of Political Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has been part of a significant number of government delegations visiting many countries.
He is married and has two children.
Phone Number: 7 836 4111
Email: marcosta@minrex.gob.cu
Secretariat
Laura Martínez
Phone Number: 7 836 4111
Email: dg@minrex.gob.cu
Deputy Director General
Name: Ernesto Antonio Sentí Darias
Date of birth: 8 September 1956
He graduated as Bachelor of International Law from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1981.
Languages: English and Russian
Further education: Postgraduate courses in the specialties of International Relations, International Law and Mercantile Law. Diploma in National Defense from the National Defense College (2004). Diploma in Public Administration from the Higher School for Government and State Cadres (2012).
Career:
1982-1984: Legal Advisor of the Cuban-Bulgarian Engineering Bureau for the Application of Electronic Computing Techniques, attached to the then National Institute of Automated Systems and Computer Science Techniques (INSAC, by its Spanish initials).
1984-1991: Expert in International Legal Affairs at the Permanent Secretariat for COMECON Affairs (SPAC, by its Spanish initials) of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.
1991-1997: Official at the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.
1997-1999: First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Justice.
1999-2004: First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
2004-2008: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba in Canada.
2009: Deputy Director of the Europe Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2009-2012: Director of the Europe Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2012-2016: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba in Ukraine and Moldavia.
2016-2018: Head of the Organization, Planning and Information Department, with the rank of Ambassador, Organization, Planning, Information and Analysis Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2018-2019: Ambassador. Deputy Director of the Organization, Planning, Information and Analysis Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2019-present: Ambassador, Deputy Director General, General Division of Political Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has been part of a great number of government delegations on official visits to other states and international organizations.
He is married and has two children.
Phone Number: 7 836 4111
Email: subdirectordopia@minrex.gob.cu
Organization, Planning And Information Division
Director
Full Name: Martha Hernández Caneiro
Date of birth: 27 September 1972
She graduated as Bachelor of Scientific and Technical Information and Library Science, University of Havana, 2001.
Further education: Postgraduate course on the specialties of Information Sciences and International Relations.
Languages: English
Career:
1997-2004: Specialist at the Historical Information Department, City Historian’s Office of Havana.
2002-2004: Attaché at the Embassy of Cuba in Nigeria.
2004-2006: Specialist at the Historical Information Department, City Historian’s Office of Havana.
2006-2011: Third and Second Secretary. Specialist at the Outreach and Information Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX, by its Spanish initials).
2011-2012: Second Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba in Zambia.
2013-2016: Second Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba in Ghana.
2016-2018: First Secretary. Specialist at the Organization, Planning, Information and Analysis Division, MINREX.
2018: Head of the Organization, Planning and Information Department, MINREX.
2019-present: Director, Organization, Planning and Information Department, MINREX.
She is married and has two children.
Phone Number: 7 836 4409 / 7 836 4450
E-mail: jefeplanificacion@minrex.gob.cu