Eduardo González
The Council of Ministers has appointed José Manuel Pascual García to the position of Spanish Ambassador to South Africa, replacing Raimundo Robredo, who has been stationed in Pretoria since 2022.
A graduate in Law from the University of Salamanca and a career diplomat since 2002, Pascual worked within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and during the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2002, in the General Secretariat for European Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Director-General for the Internal Market and Other Community Policies.
Between 2012 and 2013, he was an advisory member in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and, between 2013 and 2016, Chief of Staff, with the rank of Director-General, of the Presidency of the Constitutional Court. During the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2023, he chaired the Working Group on the Law of the Sea in Brussels, as an advisory member of the International Legal Department.
Abroad, he has served as counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Portugal (2007-2012) and as deputy head of the Spanish Embassies in Libya (2004-2007), Brazil (2016-2020), and South Africa (2020-2023).
He has been awarded the Constitutional Court Medal and the Police Merit Cross with White Distinction, as well as the Officer’s Cross and Commendations of the Orders of Civil Merit and Isabella the Catholic.
Separately, the Council has appointed Cristina Pérez Gutiérrez as ambassador to Grenada (with residence in Trinidad and Tobago), Guillermo Marín as ambassador to Liberia (with residence in Ivory Coast), and Ángel Lossada Torres-Quevedo as ambassador to Togo (with residence in Ghana).
