José Octavio Bordón

José Octavio Bordón
José Octavio Bordón
	Governor of Mendoza
	In office; 10 December 1987 – 10 December 1991
Preceded by	Santiago Llaver
Succeeded by	Rodolfo Gabrielli
National Deputy
	In office; 10 December 1983 – 10 December 1987
Constituency	Mendoza
Personal details
Born	22 December 1945 (age 78); Academic

José Octavio Bordón (born 22 December 1945) is an Argentine politician and diplomat. He was governor of Mendoza Province from 1987 to 1991, and served in both houses of the National Congress as a National Deputy and a National Senator. Most recently, he was the Argentine ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007 and to Chile from 2016 to 2019.

Life and career

Born in

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo from 1972 to 1976, and again from 1983 to 1995. He became President of the Fundación Andina in 1982. In 1983 he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as deputy for Mendoza Province for the Justicialist Party

. He was deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee.

In 1987 Bordón was elected governor of

visiting professor at Georgetown University

.

Bordón became presidential candidate for FrePaSo for the 1995 general elections, with Carlos Chacho Álvarez as his running mate. Despite being such a new party, Frepaso came in second with 30% (and first in Buenos Aires), relegating the well-established UCR, Argentina's oldest political party still in existence, to third place. However, not long after the election, Bordón fell out with FrePaSo in a leadership dispute and returned to the Justicialist Party.^[1]

Bordón worked as a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank from 1998 until 1999, and then again in 2003. He was Director of Diálogo y Perspectiva Internacional magazine 1989-94, and Director of Temas de MERCOSUR magazine 1996-2000.

Bordón served as General Director of Culture and Education for

Ambassador to the United States

in June 2003, and he remained in the post throughout Kirchner's term, until December 2007.

The prominent diplomat and politician is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue,^[2] is married to the former Mónica González Gaviola and has three children. Bordón suffered a fall while on vacation in Cariló. Hospitalized in nearby Pinamar, his condition was deemed stable.^[3]

References

^
ISBN 978-1-139-49266-9
.

^ "Inter-American Dialogue | Experts". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
^ La Nación (in Spanish)

External links

Profile, Embassy of Argentina

Political offices
Preceded by Santiago Llaver	Governor of Mendoza 1987–1991	Succeeded by Rodolfo Gabrielli
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Eduardo Amadeo	Argentine Ambassador to the United States 2003–2007	Succeeded by Héctor Timerman
Preceded by Ginés González García	Argentine Ambassador to Chile 2016–2019	Succeeded by Rafael Bielsa

[Hunter2010-1] 
ISBN 978-1-139-49266-9
.

[2] "Inter-American Dialogue | Experts". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 11 April 2017.

[3] La Nación (in Spanish)

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Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Argentina United States