The Diplomat
The Government appointed yesterday Francisco Aguilera as Spain’s ambassador to Indonesia, as The Diplomat had already announced.
Francisco de Asís Aguilera, a law graduate from the University of Granada, entered the Diplomatic Career in 1992. Since then, he was head of protocol at the Olympic Games during the XXV Olympic Games, Barcelona ’92 and, in the central services of the Ministry, he was head of the area of Bilateral Economic Relations with Africa and the Middle East; advisor member of the Technical Cabinet of the Undersecretariat; and head of area and, later, deputy director general of Multilateral Economic Relations and Air, Maritime and Land Cooperation in the General Directorate of Economic Diplomacy.
Abroad, Francisco Aguilera was Minister Counselor at the Spanish Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as Consul General of Spain in Monterrey (Mexico) and Düsseldorf (Germany).
On the other hand, the Council of Ministers appointed Cecilia Robles as director general of the United Nations, International Organizations and Human Rights, as also announced by The Diplomat.
Born in Madrid in 1969, Robles holds a degree in Classical Philology and entered the Diplomatic Career in 1997. She has been posted at the Spanish embassies in Luanda and Nouakchott and has been deputy consul in Brussels. In the central services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, she has worked in the Directorate General of Legal and Consular Affairs and in the Directorates General for Asia and the Pacific and for Latin America.
In the multilateral sphere, she has been Deputy Director of the Human Rights Office; Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations in New York and Advisor to the Directorate General for the United Nations, Human Rights and International Organizations.
Cecilia Robles Cartes will replace Fernando Fernández-Arias, who had been appointed by the previous Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, in January of this year, after having been director of the Diplomatic School. With his replacement, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, will have changed the great majority of senior officials appointed by his predecessor or who came from previous teams.
