Kira Danganan-Azucena | |
Office1: | Ambassador of the Philippines to New Zealand |
Term End1: | present |
President1: | Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. |
Predecessor1: | Querobine D. Laccay (chargés d’affaires) |
Birth Name: | Kira Christianne Danganan |
Birth Date: | August 1973 |
Birth Place: | Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines |
Nationality: | Filipino |
Spouse: | Michael F. Azucena |
Children: | 3 |
Alma Mater: | Silliman University |
Profession: | Diplomat, Public Servant |
Kira Christianne Danganan-Azucena is the Assistant Secretary for the United Nations and Other International Organizations at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines.
She had served as Chargé d'affaires, a.i. and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York.[1] On February 18, 2020, she was elected Chair of the Special Committee on the Charter of the UN and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Danganan-Azucena graduated with a degree in mass communication in 1994 from Silliman University.