Ambassador Oscar de Rojas has enjoyed a 40-year career in the area of global affairs, both public and private. He served for 27 years in the Venezuelan Civil and Foreign Services, first working on national development projects and moving on to hold senior-level posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Caracas and in various Venezuelan diplomatic outposts, including France, Switzerland, and its missions to the United Nations. He then joined the United Nations and worked for ten years as Director of the Financing for Development Office in the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

In 2009, Ambassador de Rojas joined academia, taking the position of Director of Global Partnerships at Long Island University in Brookville, New York, where he concurrently taught courses in Development Economics, International Studies, and Latin American Studies. He also has devoted much of his time volunteering for the Sovereign Order of Malta, an entity dedicated to providing assistance to poor and sick people around the world.

Ambassador de Rojas has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and master’s degrees in Economics and International Affairs from Columbia University. Now retired, he resides in Miami with his wife Patricia. They are the parents of Oscar, a 31-year-old, non-verbal young man with autism who resides in a group home for developmentally disabled adults in Cutler Bay, and of Joaquin, an ophthalmologist practicing in Sarasota.