Luis Ayllón
The Government decided to appoint a career diplomat as ambassador to Andorra, after the post has been held since August 2018 by Ángel Ros, former mayor of Lérida and former president of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC).
The Council of Ministers yesterday appointed diplomat Carlos Pérez-Desoy, who is currently Spain’s consul general in Salvador de Bahía (Brazil), as The Diplomat had announced, as ambassador to the Principality of Andorra.
With this appointment, the group of so-called ‘political ambassadors’, who are not part of the diplomatic career but have close ties to the government, is reduced to six.
Carlos Pérez-Desoy, aged 60 and born in Girona, has a long professional career as a diplomat, which began in 1989, and which has led him to occupy different posts, mainly in matters related to consular activity and protocol.
He was consul in Havana between 2000 and 2003, and from 2004 to 2006, counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in the Cuban capital. Subsequently, in 2016, he returned to Havana as Consul General until August 2020, when he was assigned to the Consulate General in Salvador de Bahía.
From 2010 to 2016, he was Deputy Director General of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for direct relations with the foreign Embassies accredited in Madrid.
He has also been posted to the Spanish Embassies in Rome, Beijing and Kingston and to the Permanent Representation to the UN in New York.
