President Alberto Fujimori, and won a seat in the Congress. under the banner of the political party "Union por el Peru". Following the political collapse of the Fujimori's regime a Transitional Government was formed and Garcia-Sayan was called by President Valentin Paniagua to serve as Minister of Justice from 2000 to 2001. Newly elected President Alejandro Toledo appointed Garcia-Sayan as Minister of Foreign Affairs, holding the post from 2001 to 2002. The 33rd period of General Assembly of the Organization of American States held in Santiago de Chile in 2003 elected Garcia-Sayan to serve a six-years term as Justice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights starting in 2004 and he served as the Court's vice-president for the 2008–09 period. Re-elected for a second mandate, he served as President of the Court for the 2010-12 period. On 27 January 2017, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres designated him a member of the Selection Mechanism for the Special Jurisdiction of Peace, established in Colombia in 2016. Also, since January 2017 he is Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers for the United Nations. He is also currently serving as an advisory board member of the Global Judicial Integrity Network at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Education García Sayán attended the "Santa Maria" School, graduating from high-school in 1967. He then attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1969. He continued his studies at the University of Texas, at Austin in 1970, and returned to the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru for his law degree in 1975, where he has, since then, also taught law. On his spare time, Mr. García Sayán is a percussionist and motorcycle enthusiast, the former from his times as a teenager, when he and several of his school friends as well as others from other schools, formed the rock group Los Hang Ten's. References External links 1950 births Living people Foreign ministers of Peru Inter-American Court of Human Rights judges Members of the Inter-American Dialogue 20th-century Peruvian lawyers 21st-century Peruvian judges Peruvian judges of international courts and tribunals Peruvian Ministers of Justice Peruvian people of Spanish descent