Irene Horejs
{{Short description|Austrian diplomat}}
Irene Horejs is an Austrian{{cite web |url=https://www.actualidadambiental.pe/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/elcomercio_42.pdf |title="La titulación de tierras es una demanda en el mundo" |website=Actualidad Ambiental |language=Spanish |accessdate=19 May 2025 |quote=Irene Horejs nació en Austria.}} former European Union diplomat and official.
She served as the ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Peru (2013–2017),{{cite news |url=https://andina.pe/ingles/noticia.aspx?id=481608 |title=Peruvian president receives credentials from foreign envoys |date=8 November 2013 |agency=Andina |accessdate=19 May 2025}} the Dominican Republic,{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/movers-shakers-264/ |title=Movers & Shakers |date=25 July 2012 |accessdate=19 May 2025}} Niger and Mali.{{cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/document/print/en/memo_13_522/MEMO_13_522_EN.pdf |title=High Representative Catherine Ashton appoints new Heads of EU Delegations to Peru and Serbia |date=7 July 2013 |publisher=European Commission |accessdate=19 May 2025}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ifri.org/en/how-realistic-new-partnership-between-europe-and-africa |title=How Realistic is a New Partnership Between Europe and Africa? |date=7 June 2022 |publisher=Institut français des relations internationales |accessdate=19 May 2025}} She was also the head of the EU delegation to Cuba, relinquishing the post in August 2012.{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-appoints-ambassador-to-cuba/ |title=EU appoints ambassador to Cuba |date=19 July 2012 |newspaper=Politico |accessdate=19 May 2025}} In July 2013, Carlos Morales Troncoso, Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic, met with Horejs, seeking the EU's help in resolving a trade dispute with Haiti.{{cite news |url=https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2013/07/24/europe-steps-into-dominican-republic-haiti-trade-spat-8/ |title=Europe steps into Dominican Republic-Haiti trade spat |date=24 July 2013 |newspaper=Dominican Today |accessdate=19 May 2025}} At the end of her term as ambassador to Peru, on 17 August 2017 she was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru (Grand Cross), that nation's highest honor.{{cite web |url=https://www-eeas-europa-eu.translate.goog/node/31353_es?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc |title=EU Ambassador Irene Horejs receives Peru's highest honor |date=24 August 2017 |publisher=European External Action Service |accessdate=19 May 2025}}
She also served as Head of Unit for Human Development, Social Cohesion and Employment in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Development and as Acting Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Pacific, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.{{cite web |url=https://www.unhcr.org/au/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unhcr.org%2Fau%2Fsites%2Fen-au%2Ffiles%2Flegacy-pdf%2F5d94a2377.pdf?version1692855127 |title=Side event of the 70th session of the Executive Committee: Supporting solutions in the Central African Republic |date=8 October 2019 |publisher=UN Refugee Agency |accessdate=19 May 2025}}