The Diplomat
The director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero, has appointed the new directors of the centers in New Delhi, Tel Aviv, Manila and Munich and the executive director of the Instituto Cervantes Observatory at Harvard University.
According to a press release issued yesterday by Cervantes, García Montero has appointed, at the proposal of the general secretary, Carmen Noguero, with the approval of the secretary of state for Ibero-America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World and president of the Board of Directors, Susana Sumelzo, and after hearing the Board of Directors, María Gil Bürmann for New Delhi, Francisco Fernando del Río for Tel Aviv, Francisco Javier López Tapia for Manila and Carmen Pastor Villalba for Munich. In addition, Francisco Javier Pueyo is the new executive director of the Observatory of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University.
According to the press release, a total of 21 directors of Instituto Cervantes centres will change their destination from 1 September to other centres in the network, according to the resolution of the general secretary of the institution approved by the Board of Directors.
The new destinations of the directors abroad are Juan Vicente Piqueras (current director of Amman), who will direct the centre in Tangier; Yolanda Soler (Beirut), who will move to Amman; Josep Maria de Sagarra (Belgrade), destined for Budapest; José Ignacio Olmos (Berlin), for Beirut; Ana Vázquez Barrado (Brussels), for Milan; and Javier Valdivielso (Budapest), for New York.
Likewise, Anastasio Sánchez-Zamorano (current director of Chicago) will be the director of Rabat, Juan Carlos Vidal (Stockholm) will direct the Sofia centre, Miguel Ángel San José (Fez) the Marrakech centre, Ignacio Abad (Lisbon) will go to Belgrade, Javier Galván (Manila) to Stockholm, Teresa Iniesta (Milan) to Brussels and Mila Crespo (Bremen) to Vienna. Felipe Santos (Munich) will move as director to Warsaw, Óscar Pujol (New Delhi) to Fez, Richard Bueno (New York) to Lisbon, Daniel Gallego (Salvador de Bahia) to Sao Paulo, Juan Manuel Casado (Sao Paulo) to Curitiba, María Luisa Santos (Sofia) to Chicago, Abel Murcia (Warsaw) to Bucharest and, finally, Ignacio Martínez Castignani (Vienna) to Berlin.
