Jorge Domecq

Jorge Domecq
Chief Executive of European Defence Agency
Incumbent
Assumed office 2015
Preceded by	Claude-France Arnould
Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the OSCE
In office 2014–2015
Ambassador of Spain to the Philippines
In office 2011–2014
Monarch	Juan Carlos I of Spain
Prime Minister	Mariano Rajoy
Succeeded by	Luis Calvo
Minister Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in Morocco
In office 2004–2005
Prime Minister	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Personal details
Born	Jorge Manuel Domecq Fernandez de Bobadilla (1960-11-28) 28 November 1960 Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain
Profession	Diplomat and Public Servant

Jorge Domecq (born 28 November 1960) is a Spanish diplomat who is the former ambassador of Spain to the Philippines. Since February 2015, he is the new European Defence Agency Chief Executive,^[1] appointed by Federica Mogherini.

Bachelor of Law, entered 1985 in the Diplomatic Corps. He has served in the Spanish Embassy in the NATO Council and Brazil. He was adviser Executive Cabinet Minister of Defence, Chief of Cabinet of the Secretary General of NATO and second in command at the Embassy of Spain in Italy. In 2004 he was appointed second in command at the Embassy of Spain in Morocco and in 2005 he held the post of deputy director general of the Bureau of Gibraltar. Later, he was director general of the UN, Global Affairs and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from July 2010 to January 2011 he was director general of Multilateral Affairs.^[2]

Honours

• Spanish Cross of Naval Merit (first class)
• Commander and Officer of the Spanish Orders of the Civil Merit and of the Order of Queen Isabel la Católica
• Grand-Officer of the Order of Al-Wissam (Morocco)
• Grand-Officer of the Order of La Stella (Italy)
• Third Degree Knight Commander of Rizal, Order of the Knights of Rizal
• Grand Cross, Order of Sikatuna, gold distinction. Republic of the Philippines^[3]

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