Wellington Dario Bencosme Castaños presented credentials to the Secretary General of the United Nations this week. Previously, Bencosme Castaños had served as ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He was the dean of diplomats when serving in Trinidad.
Bencosme Castaños is an international affairs, trade and development, and government relations veteran with over 20 years of professional experience working on behalf of government and private clients, as senior diplomat and advisor, providing strategic counseling in various fields and industries, at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels.
Bencosme Castaños advised and advocated in the negotiation, ratification and implementation of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). He also was an advisor for the stakeholders in the negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Caribbean States and the European Union, other FTA negotiations, and World Trade Organization (WTO) issues, as per his Linkedin page.
As per the Ministry of Foreign Relations website, Bencosme is an economist and diplomat with over 20 years of experience in foreign affairs, international trade, development, public policy, government, and security.
He joined the Dominican Republic’s Foreign Service in 2004, serving as Minister Counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs from 2004 to 2007, and later as Deputy Head of Mission at the Dominican Embassy in Washington, D.C., from 2007 to 2013.
From 2015 to 2018, Bencosme was appointed Director of Relations with the United States and Canada at the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and advisor to the Vice Ministry of Bilateral Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo.
Between 2018 and 2020, he served as Minister Counselor at the Dominican Mission to the United Nations, working in the Office for Security Council Affairs in New York.
In April 2021, he was accredited as the Dominican Republic’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He served through 2025 when named to the United Nations position.
Bencosme holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
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26 March 2025