Isadora Zubillaga

Isadora holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Boston University and a master's degree in international relations from the Sorbonne University in Paris.^[3] She has worked as coordinator of human rights projects for the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation and international coordinator of NYC2010 under the direction of Michael Bloomberg.^[3][4] Zubillaga also served on the board of directors of the French Alliance of Caracas, is a founding member of the Popular Will opposition party and served as international director of the Chacao mayor's office under the administration of Leopoldo López.^[4]

Since the arrest of Leopoldo López in 2014, Zubillaga and her family have been subjected to "systematic denunciations by the government of Nicolás Maduro and harassment in the state-controlled media". Isadora moved to Spain after suffering an express kidnapping and has been living in Europe since 2014.^[2] On 21 July 2017, when her passport was about to expire and "with null chances of being renewed," the Spanish Council of Ministers decided to grant her Spanish nationality.^[5][2][1]

She has been an international advisor to Leopoldo López;^[2][3] as of 2021, she was director of the foundation Código Venezuela, a non-governmental organization dedicated to supporting the Venezuelan diaspora.^[4] She has also chaired the Association for Freedom and Democracy in Venezuela.^[3]

During the Venezuelan presidential crisis,^[6] on 19 February 2019, she was appointed by the National Assembly as Venezuela's ambassador to France^[4] and was subsequently appointed as deputy presidential commissioner for Venezuela's foreign relations in September 2019.^[7][8][9]

• France–Venezuela relations