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Jorge Domecq | |
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![]() Domecq in 2016 | |
Chief Executive of European Defence Agency | |
Assumed office February 2015 | |
Preceded by | Claude-France Arnould |
Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the OSCE | |
In office 2014–2015 | |
Ambassador of Spain to the Philippines | |
In office 2011–2014 | |
Monarch | Juan Carlos I of Spain |
Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
Succeeded by | Luis Calvo |
Minister Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in Morocco | |
In office 2004–2005 | |
Prime Minister | JoséLuis Rodríguez Zapatero |
Personal details | |
Born | Jorge Manuel Domecq Fernandez de Bobadilla 28 November 1960 Jerez de la Frontera,Spain |
Profession | Diplomat and Public Servant |
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Bachelor of Law,entered 1985 in the Diplomatic Corps. He has served in the Spanish Embassy in the NATO Council and Brazil. He was adviser Executive Cabinet Minister of Defence,Chief of Cabinet of the Secretary General of NATO and second in command at the Embassy of Spain in Italy. In 2004 he was appointed second in command at the Embassy of Spain in Morocco and in 2005 he held the post of deputy director general of the Bureau of Gibraltar. Later,he was director general of the UN,Global Affairs and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,and from July 2010 to January 2011 he was director general of Multilateral Affairs. [3]
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