Luis Gallegos obtained a Law Degree and also a Juris Doctor Degree at the Central University of Ecuador in 1975. In 1983, as a Humphrey Fellow Scholar, he earned a Master of Arts Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard University. His career as a Government diplomat began in 1966 when he joined the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served in Spain, the US, Bulgaria, Australia, and other positions. He has been honored to have been elected to numerous presidencies and vice presidencies in the United Nations System. He has been an expert member of the UN Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment from 2006 to 2011 and served as the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the UN in Geneva from 2011 to June 2014. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Global UN Partnership for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ICT), Honorary Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Public Policy and Disability of American University. Ambassador Gallegos has been a professor at the School of International Relations of the Central University of Quito, at the Military Academies of the Army and Air Force. He holds an adjunct professorship at the Institute for Disability and Public Policy of American University in Washington, D.C. At present, he is a Fellow of UNITAR, the United Nations Institute of Training and Research.