Eduardo González
Eduardo Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga, former Spanish ambassador to Portugal and to the Holy See, has died at the age of 67 after an illness.
“We announce the sad news of the passing on Saturday, January 24, of our colleague and member of the ADE, Eduardo Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga,” the Association of Spanish Diplomats (ADE) reported in a statement on Monday.
Born in Madrid in February 1958, Eduardo Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga had been a member of the Diplomatic Corps since 1985. Until 1994, he served at the Spanish Embassies in Sudan, Uruguay, and Mexico. Between 1995 and 1996, he was director of the Ibero-American Popular Foundation of the People’s Party (PP), and from 1996 to 2000, he was Director General of Foreign Policy for Ibero-America. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Permanent Observer Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Subsequently, he took a leave of absence to work in the PP’s International Relations Secretariat alongside Jorge Moragas, then Coordinator of the Prime Minister’s Office and International Relations for the party. During those years, he also served as an advisor at the Diplomatic School. Between 2012 and 2017 he was Spain’s ambassador to the Holy See and from July of that year until August 2018 he was ambassador to Portugal.
