Ambassador Sergio Ley
May 16 - June 4, 2007
Ambassador Ismael Sergio Ley-López graduated from the National School of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1962. He did postgraduate studies in art history at the University of Paris and received a masters in restoration of historical buildings from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London.
Ley joined the Mexican foreign service in 1984, and was a cultural attaché at the Mexican embassy in Beijing, China from 1984 to 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he was the deputy-chief of mission at the Mexican embassy in Singapore. He moved to Shanghai to open the Mexican consulate there, and he was the consul general until 1994. From 1995 to 1997 he was the director general for the Pacific and Asia for the Mexican ministry of foreign affairs. He was the ambassador to Indonesia from 1997 to 2001, and the ambassador to China from 2001 until 2006.
