Fidel Sendagorta Gómez del Campillo is a diplomat and writer. He has served as Spain’s ambassador to Egypt (2010–2014) and to Japan (2022–2025). At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served as Director-General for North Africa and the Middle East (2008–2010), Director-General for North America, Asia and the Pacific (2015–2018) and Director-General for Foreign and Security Policy (2020–2021). He was a visiting scholar at the Belfer Center at Harvard University (2018–2019). He is the author of Europe Between Two Lights: Decline or Resurgence and Strategies of Power: China, the United States and Europe in the Age of Great Rivalry.