On the picture Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, Foreign Affairs Minister of the Kingdom of Spain.
Madrid, November 2016: Henceforth the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation shall be Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, who hitherto served as the country’s permanent representative to the EU. He replaces José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfíl in office between 2011 and 2016.
Born in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz, Andalusia) in 1955, Dastis Quecedo graduated in law. He entered the diplomatic service in 1983, and has worked as Executive Adviser in the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the UN, Adviser to the Prime Minister, Director at the Unit in charge of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union Council back in 2002 as well as Secretary General for European Affairs.
His first ambassadorship took him to The Netherlands in 2004, thereafter he served in Brussels at the Permanent Representation to the EU, whereof he became the chief diplomat in 2012.
For further information:
Minister Alfonso Dastis: http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Portal/es/Ministerio/Ministro/Paginas/Biografia.aspx
Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU: https://representacionpermanente.eu
Embassy of Spain to The Netherlands, Mission to the OPCW (HE Ambassador Fernando Arias): http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/LAHAYA/es/Embajada/Paginas/Embajador.aspx
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Alfonso Dastis Quecedo – Picture by EU Regional on Flickr
