The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers yesterday appointed Felipe de la Morena to the post of Spanish ambassador to Thailand, as The Diplomat had already anticipated.
Initially, De la Morena was to be appointed ambassador to South Africa by decision of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, but the current head of the Department, José Manuel Albares -in an unusual move in the change of ministers within a government of the same color-, decided to swap his destination with Raimundo Robredo, for whom the Thai authorities had already been asked for his approval and who has finally been sent to South Africa.
Felipe de la Morena, a graduate in Law and a member of the Diplomatic Career since 1989, has been posted to the Spanish Embassies in Kinshasa, Warsaw, Washington and Quito. Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has been Director of Economic Relations with Africa and the Middle East, Head of Security for NATO and the Western European Union (WEU), Deputy Director General of Bilateral Economic Relations with Developing Countries, Head of the Technical Cabinet of the Undersecretariat and Inspector General of the Service. Apart from that, in the Ministry of Defense he has been executive advisor for International Affairs in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Defense.
In 2011 he was appointed ambassador to Malta and in 2014 ambassador in Special Mission for International Environmental Affairs. Since 2016 he has been coordinator at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels. De la Morena will replace Emilio de Miguel Calabia, who had been in the post for more than four years, at the Spanish Embassy in Bangkok.
