Alexandra Hill Tinoco

Alexandra Hill Tinoco is a Salvadoran politician who has been El Salvador's Foreign Minister since June 2019. Early life and education Hill Tinoco is the daughter of Jaime Hill, who was president of the Anti-drug Foundation of El Salvador (Fundasalva) and alderman of the municipal council of San Salvador.

She is a member of the Hill family, whose roots go back to James Hill, an Englishman who sailed to El Salvador in order to start a coffee-planting business. The business developed greatly by using new strategies to develop new coffee mixtures. Hill Tinoco meets with U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo at the Department of State in Washington D.C. in October 2019.

Career Hill Tinoco worked as executive director of Fundasalva, an NGO focused on the prevention and treatment of drug abuse. She was a member of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission in 2006 and led the Drug Reduction Section in 2012. She was sworn in on 1 June 2019.