Eduardo González
Last Tuesday, at the proposal of Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, the Council of Ministers removed Miguel Bauzá as Spain’s ambassador to New Zealand. Bauzá turns seventy this month, the retirement age for civil servants.
Miguel Bauzá, born in Barcelona, graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1977 and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1980. He has served in the Spanish embassies in China, the Philippines, Turkey, Tunisia, and Denmark, serving as deputy commander in the latter three, and has served as consul in Zurich and Basel, Beijing, Moscow, and Hong Kong/Macau, until his appointment in 2018 as Spain’s ambassador to Wellington, New Zealand. In 2004, he was the first Spanish ambassador resident in Estonia.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has always worked at the European level, first in charge of Mediterranean policy and the European Economic Area (EEA) negotiations, and later in charge of enlargement negotiations and monitoring of the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC).
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has always worked at the European level, first in charge of Mediterranean policy and the European Economic Area (EEA) negotiations, and later in charge of enlargement negotiations and monitoring of the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). He has also served as deputy in the cabinet of the Secretary of State for the EU and as Deputy Director-General for Candidate Countries, EEA, and Other European Countries in the Directorate-General for Europe. In June 2022, he was promoted to ambassador.
Bauzá is the second ambassador dismissed this month by the Foreign Office due to retirement. The previous ambassador was Antonio Pérez-Hernández y Torra, who stepped down as Spain’s representative in the Dominican Republic on June 3, just five days shy of his seventieth birthday.