| Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner | |
| Office2: | Secretary General of the Spanish Royal Household |
| Term Start2: | 2002 |
| Monarch2: | Juan Carlos I |
| Term End2: | 2011 |
| Predecessor2: | Alberto Aza Arias |
| Successor2: | Alfonso Sanz Portolés |
| Birth Name: | Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner Rodríguez |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Children: | 3 |
| Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner Rodríguez (born 30 June 1953), is a Spanish diplomat and civil servant, current Ambassador of Spain to Morocco.[1]
Hochleitner has a degree of law from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and is the son of the professor, diplomat and honorary president of the Club of Rome, Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner.[2]
He entered the Diplomatic Career in 1979 and has served as director of the cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, secretary at the Spanish embassy in Germany, deputy assistant general director of Community Coordination for Commercial Customs Affairs and deputy and general director of Community Technical Coordination. In 1993 he was named ambassador of Spain to the Dominican Republic and, later, director of the International Department of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government and ambassador of Spain in Austria, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.[3] In 2000, he became General Manager of Foreign Policy for Europe.
From 2002 to 2011 he was Secretary General of the House of His Majesty the King of Spain,[4] [5] under the presidency of the diplomat Alberto Aza. In 2011 he became the Spanish Ambassador before the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).[6] Since 2015, he occupies the Spanish embassy in the Kingdom of Morocco,[7] after having sounded his name for the Portuguese embassy.[8] He is member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.