Jorge Domecq | |
Office: | Chief Executive of European Defence Agency |
Term Start: | February 2015 |
Predecessor: | Claude-France Arnould |
Office1: | Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the OSCE |
Term Start1: | 2014 |
Term End1: | 2015 |
Office2: | Ambassador of Spain to the Philippines |
Monarch2: | Juan Carlos I of Spain |
Primeminister2: | Mariano Rajoy |
Term Start2: | 2011 |
Term End2: | 2014 |
Successor2: | Luis Calvo |
Office3: | Minister Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in Morocco |
Primeminister3: | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
Term Start3: | 2004 |
Term End3: | 2005 |
Birth Name: | Jorge Manuel Domecq Fernandez de Bobadilla |
Birth Date: | 28 November 1960 |
Birth Place: | Jerez de la Frontera, 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. From February 2015 to January 2020, he was the European Defence Agency Chief Executive,[1] [2] 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.[3]