Director General for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the EU and Development Cooperation, Spain

Joaquín de Arístegui

Secretary General of the ONUART Foundation (in charge of the construction and decoration of the new Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Chamber, headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council, at the Palais des Nations), Geneva, March 2007. • Promoted to Counsellor, July 2007. • Deputy Director General for Bilateral Economic Relations with Emerging and Developing Countries, Directorate General for International Economic and Energy Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Madrid, January 2009. • Appointed Chairman of the Group Friends of the ONUART Foundation, December 2009. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Trinidad & Tobago, January 2010. • Appointed Ambassador-Permanent Observer of Spain to the Association of Caribbean States/ACS (Port of Spain), on February 2010. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, March 2010. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Barbados, June 2010. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Guyana, June 2010. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Suriname, November 2010. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Grenada, November 2010. • Appointed Ambassador of Spain to Saint Lucia, February 2011. • Appointed Ambassador-Permanent Representative of Spain to the Caribbean Community/CARICOM (Georgetown), February 2011. • Appointed Ambassador-Permanent Representative of Spain to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States/OECS (Castries), February 2011. • Project Manager at the Office of the Government’s High Commissioner for Marca España (Brand Spain), Prime Minister’s Office, Madrid, January 2014. • Consul General of Spain in Beijing (PR of China), July 2014 • Promoted to Minister Plenipotentiary, January 2016 • Consul General of Spain in Lyon (France), July 2018 • Director General of the Office of España Global, State Secretariat for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EU and Development Cooperation, November 2018