Fidel Sendagorta was appointed Secretary General of the U.S. – Spain Council on 18th December 2013. He was Spanish Ambassador to Egypt from October 2010 to May 2014. He became a Diplomat in 1984 and has had several diplomatic postings abroad in the Spanish Embassies in Tokyo, Havana and Rabat, as well as at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was Advisor to the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and for Latin America from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 until 1996, he was Deputy Director General to the Office of the Minister. Mr. Sendagorta holds a Law Degree from the Madrid University Complutense and an International Studies Diploma from the Diplomatic School at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also Second Lieutenant of the Infantry.
From 2003 until 2008 he was Professor at the Diplomatic School and published the essay Europa entre dos luces: declive o resurgimiento (Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid 2007). He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies.
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