Máximo E. Gowland
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Full Biography
Lawyer graduated at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and career diplomat who entered the Argentine National Foreign Service in 1997. He worked in the General Directorate for Antarctic Affairs from 1997-99; 2007-2011; and again from March 2015 to date, since November 2016 as National Director for Antarctic Foreign Policy.
During these periods he has attended eleven Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCMs), since 2016 as Head of Delegation. Between 2015 and 2019 he chaired Antarctic Tourism negotiations at the Consultative Meetings. He has also attended meetings of the Commission on Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) on eleven occasions, as Commissioner and Head of Delegation since 2016. In 2019 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the Commission (2019/20).
He has acted as inspector of foreign stations in Antarctica in 2016 and 2017 and has been lecturer at several courses, seminars and conferences on Antarctic issues.
On his postings abroad, Gowland has served in the Argentine Consulate General in Miami, USA (1999-2007) and at the Argentine Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay (2011-2015).
