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Ángeles Moreno./ Photo: @blsintlservices

The Diplomat. 14/07/2018

The Council of Ministers appointed yesterday undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Angeles Moreno Bau, who replaced Beatriz Larrotcha in the position, as The Diplomat had advanced. In addition, the Executive has named as General Director of Sustainable Development Policies to an expert in the 2030 Agenda, Gabriel Ferrero, and has unblocked the appointments of several ambassadors who had already received the placét and who had fallen behind due to the change of government.

Moreno Bau, born in 1968 in Madrid and with studies in sociology at the American University of Cairo and International Law at the University of Vienna, belongs to the Diplomatic Career since 1994.

Ángeles Moreno was currently a deputy consul at the Spanish Embassy in London. Previously, she worked in embassies in Mexico, Sierra Leone, Cairo, Panama and Moscow, has been ambassador on special mission for Energy Affairs and she previously held positions in the Ministries of Interior, Defense and Presidency of the Government. All of them were positions of technical character and under the socialist governments of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Therefore, in 2006, she was appointed deputy director general of International Relations and Immigration in the Ministry of the Interior, she then was director of Office of the secretariat of State for Defense and, after that, in 2008, she was signed by Bernardino León as director of Office of the Secretariat General of the Presidency of the Government. Coinciding with the exit of the latter for a position in the EU halfway through 2011, Moreno went back to the Ministry of the Interior to be promoted to director general of International Relations and Immigration.

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The Government appoints Director of Sustainable Development Policies to Gabriel Ferrero, an expert in Agenda 2030

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On the other hand, the Government appointed General Director of Sustainable Development Policies to Gabriel Ferrero, who arrives at the post a few days after Spain submits to the United Nations Voluntary National Exam on the advances in the 2030 Agenda and in the process of Institutional reinforcement of the 2030 Agenda by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

Ferrero exercised, from August 2017 until today, as an advisory member for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, he was deputy general director of Planning and Development Policies at the Secretariat of State for International Cooperation and coordinator of the United Nations High Level Task Force on Food Security and Nutrition (HLTF). He was also part of the Team for the 2030 Agenda and Climate Change of the Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations.

In addition, the Government today confirmed the appointment of the new ambassadors of Spain in Côte d’Ivoire, Ricardo López-Aranda; Gabon, Fernando Alonso; Haiti, Pedro José Sanz Serrano; Kuwait, Álvaro Rodríguez; and Tunisia, the until now deputy director of the Diplomatic Information Office, Guillermo Ardizone.