Alberto de Belaunde is a Peruvian congress member, recently re-elected for a second term, and a member of the Justice and Human Rights Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. Alberto is the only openly gay member of the Peruvian congress, and a founder member of the Global Equality Caucus, an initiative that gathers LGBT+ representatives around the world.
In 2019, he was awarded the Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award from the Victory Institute for his work supporting LGBT+ rights. Alberto de Belaunde is also a constitutional lawyer and university professor.