Eduardo González
The Council of Ministers appointed Laura Oroz Ulibarri to the position of Spanish ambassador to Chile this Tuesday.
A law graduate and member of the diplomatic service since 2004, Laura Oroz has served at the Spanish Embassy in Abuja (2006-2008), New Delhi (2008-2011), Hanoi (2011-2013), and Panama (2013), and has served as Consul General in Santiago de Chile (2019-2021).
Much of her professional career has been spent at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), where she served as Technical Advisor for Cooperation with Asia (2013) and Sub-Saharan Africa (2014), Head of the Support Unit in the Directorate of Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean (2015-2017), Head of the Department of Cooperation with Andean Countries and the Southern Cone (2017-2019), and Director of Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean (2021-2025).
Laura Oroz will replace Rafael Garranzo, who has been at the Spanish Embassy in Chile since 2021 and who will turn seventy next year, the retirement age for civil servants.
Garranzo, who was Director General of Foreign Policy for Ibero-America until José Manuel Albares took over as minister in July 2021, was already on the list of around twenty ambassadors the government planned to replace throughout 2025, according to a call for applications issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to which The Diplomat had access at the end of 2024.
