Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta (born 13 June 1959) is a Venezuelan politician and diplomat currently serving as Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations since 2017 and formerly served as Alternate Representative of Venezuela to the Organization of American States from 2017 to 2019. He was Venezuela's deputy foreign minister until June 2017, when he succeeded Delcy Rodriguez as Venezuela's Foreign Minister.^[1] On August 2, 2017, following the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, President Nicolás Maduro appointed former Vice President Jorge Arreaza to replace Moncada as the new Foreign Affairs Minister.

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Moncada graduated in history at the Central University of Venezuela.

Between 2004 and 2006, he was Minister of Higher Education of President Hugo Chavez and director of the History School of the Central University of Venezuela. Moncada was Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations in 2013. He also was Venezuela's ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Later, he served as Ambassador of Venezuela to the Organization of American States (OAS) and as head of the Presidential Commission of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Moncada assumed the Vice-Ministry for North America, and then replaced Delcy Rodríguez as Foreign Affairs Minister during the 2017 Constituent Assembly election. After the elections were over, President Nicolás Maduro appointed former Vice President Jorge Arreaza as his successor, for which Moncada returned to exercise his functions as Vice Minister and Ambassador of Venezuela to the OAS.

In 2017 Maduro also appointed Moncada as Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.^[2][3]

• List of ministers of foreign affairs of Venezuela
• List of foreign ministers in 2017