About us

Honorary President

Mariana Plaza

HE Mariana Plaza has served as the Ambassador of Argentina to the United Kingdom since June 2024.

Previously, she was the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom since 2019.

Since joining the Argentine Foreign Service in 2005, Ambassador Plaza has held an extensive diplomatic career spanning across three continents.

Her first posting was at the Argentine Mission to the MERCOSUR and the Latin American Free Trade Association (ALADI) in Montevideo, Uruguay.

She was later posted to the Argentine Embassy in Kenya before coming to London.

Ambassador Plaza enjoys travelling, films, and sports.

Chairwoman, Trustee

Fátima Nollén-Reardon

Fátima is a journalist, dance writer and reviewer. She writes for Dancing Times and is the only Argentine member of the Critics’ Circle UK, Dance Section.

She lived and worked in Argentina, Brazil, the United States and the UK, where she arrived in 2002. Her career developed mainly in television and radio as a reporter, foreign correspondent and current affairs commentator. She was awarded a scholarship by Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) and won -with her NBC-Telemundo team- three Emmy Awards for the coverage of the Olympics in 2012.

She worked for Clarín, Gente, Crónica TV, ATC (TV Pública), Telemundo, NBC-Deportes Telemundo, Harper’s Bazzar Mexico, Balletin Dance, and La Nación newspaper.

Fátima joined the AAS in 2007 and is a member of the executive committee since 2018.

She lives in London with her husband Mark and son Mateo. You probably will find her at the ballet, and she loves sharing time with friends and dancing.

Trustee

Mario Mansilla

Mario Mansilla is an Italo-Argentinian accountant and linguist from Buenos Aires University (UBA). His passion for travel led him to join the airline industry in 1980 at Aerolíneas Argentinas’ head office. Mario was Administration Manager for Italy and the Middle East in Rome. In London he was Admin Manager for the UK and General Manager UK and North Europe for more for 10 years.

In 2003 he joined Ethiopian Airlines as Sales and Administration Manager, position he greatly enjoyed for 15 years, accompanying the amazing growth of the airline.

After retiring in 2018, he is still active as Honorary treasurer of the Anglo-Argentine Society and as Honorary Secretary of Foreign Airlines Association UK. His other interests are gardening, running marathons (more half now) around the world, and singing in the chorus of Chelsea Opera Group and other London choirs as required.

Vice-Chairman, Trustee

Federico Miguel Amadeo Cincotta

CEO and Founder of Cincotta Advisory, a growing international legal and consultancy firm. Federico has more than 20 years of legal experience in Argentina and more than 8 years of post-qualification experience as a practising England & Wales Solicitor. He provides expert legal, business, commercial and corporate governance guidance to governments, the UK, international companies and private clients for the management of different legal scenarios on behalf of a diverse client portfolio.

He is the Vice-chairman of SOBAL (Society of British and Argentine Lawyers), sits at the Board of the BACC (British Argentine Chamber of Commerce), is a member of the Law Society of England & Wales, Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal and Colegio de Abogados de La Plata. He is a professor at the National University of La Plata -Postgradute course-, lecturing on Legal English.

Federico lives in London with his wife Fiona and their two Anglo-Argentine children and loves to make asados for his friends and family.

Hon. Treasurer

Federico J. Yáñez

Federico was born and raised in Argentina, where he attended school at St. Leonard’s College (part of ESSARP - English Speaking Scholastic Association Of The River Plate) and his relationship with English culture began.

He earned his degree as Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Management Engineering in 2007, and Masters degree in Project Management in 2012. His consulting career started in Accenture, in Barcelona in 2008, before taking on a role with NTT DATA in 2016. He is now a consulting executive, and also collaborates with Griinku, a farm-to-fork start-up platform, and 3N Brokers, an international trade enterprise.

He lived and worked in Argentina, Puerto Rico, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, and France, finally moving to the UK in 2016. He currently lives in London with his wife María, their daughter Felicity, and the lovely Astro (a Cocker Spaniel).

Federico joined the Anglo-Argentine Society Executive Committee in 2021, and is passionate about making this a better world for our children - one step at a time.

Hon. Secretary

Clorrie Yeomans

Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Clorrie’s connection to Argentina began in 2019 while interning at a wine and travel magazine in Mendoza. Clorrie now works at Canning House- a UK-Latin American forum- as the Corporate Affairs Officer. She graduated from Oxford University in 2022 with an MPhil in Latin American Studies, where she received a scholarship from the Argentine Club Educational Trust. She, also, holds a BA in Modern Languages and Cultures from Durham University.

After working in Mendoza’s wine industry, Clorrie returned to Argentina in 2022 to conduct fieldwork in San Antonio de Areco (Buenos Aires Province) for her MPhil thesis on the evolution of the gaucho identity. The following year, she visited Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay for business and pleasure.

Clorrie speaks Spanish and French and is studying Portuguese. Outside work, she enjoys cooking classic Argentine dishes with a British twist!

Co-opted Member

Lucía Sarmiento

Lucía Sarmiento comes from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived in London since 2016. She has worked in hospitality and journalism in the English capital.

Lucía works at Chango Empanadas, an Argentine-founded company based in London, and at Hilton London Canary Wharf, where she started as a Food and Beverage Supervisor and is currently a Front Office Supervisor. She also worked at The Waldorf Hilton from 2017 to 2022.

In addition to her hospitality career, Lucía has written articles as the London correspondent of SRSUR News, an online news agency based in Buenos Aires on topics such as Cinema or UK Politics. Back in Argentina she also collaborated with SRSUR on their TV and Radio broadcasts of their very own ‘Política, Producción y Trabajo’, as a producer and a Film & TV commentator.

Lucía joined the Anglo-Argentine Society as a member in 2022 and became part of the committee in 2024. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French, and would like to continue learning languages in the future. She enjoys artistic expressions such as Music, Arts, Drama and Musical Theatre, but her favourites are Films and TV shows of all time.