CV of Ambassador Javier Rupérez 2011-present Member of the Board of Directors, Abengoa Bioenergy, LLC. Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC Member of the Board of several Non for Profit Organizations: Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales, FAES, Madrid. Fundación para la Libertad, Bilbao. Circulo Cívico de Opinión, Madrid. 2007-2011 Consul General of Spain, Chicago. 2004-2007 Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, New York. 2000-2004 Spanish Ambassador to the United States of America, Washington, D.C. 2000 Member of the Spanish House of Deputies, representing the province of Ciudad Real (People s Party); Chairman, Defense Committee.
1998-2000 President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly. 1998-2000 President, Christian Democratic International. 1996-1998 President, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. 1996-2000 Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Spanish House of Deputies, Madrid. 1996-2000 Member of the Spanish House of Deputies, representing the province of Ciudad Real (People s Party). 1993-1996 Member of the Spanish House of Deputies, representing the province of Ciudad Real (People s Party). Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs. 1989-2000 Member of the People s Party Executive Committee. 1989-2000 President of the NGO Fundación Humanismo y Democracia. 1993-1997 Member of the Spanish House of Deputies, representing the province of Madrid (People s Party). Opposition spokesman on Defense. 2
1986-1989 Member of the Spanish House of Deputies, representing the province of Cuenca (Christian Democratic Party). Vice-President and President of the Party. 1983-1986 Member for Cuenca, Regional Parliament of Castilla-la-Mancha and Senator for the same region (Christian Democratic Party). 1982-1983 Ambassador of Spain to NATO, Brussels. 1980-1982 Ambassador of Spain to the CSCE session in Madrid. 1979-1982 Member of the Spanish House of Deputies, representing the Province of Cuenca (Union of the Democratic Center). Spokesman for Defense and Foreign Affairs. 1977-1981 Member of the Executive Committee of the Union for the Democratic Center and its Secretary for Foreign Affairs. 1975-1977 Chief of Staff of the Undersecretary and then of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, Spain. 3
1973-1975 Member of the Spanish delegation to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), Geneva and Helsinki. 1972-1973 Counselor of the Embassy of Spain in Helsinki. Member of the Spanish delegation to the CSCE preliminary talks. 1969-1972 First Secretary, Embassy of Spain in Warsaw, Poland. 1967-1969 Second Secretary, Embassy of Spain, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 1965-1967 Diplomatic School, Madrid. Javier Rupérez holds degrees in Law (1962) and Journalism (1975) from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Since 2006 he has held the rank of Ambassador within the Spanish Diplomatic Service. Mr. Rupérez was born in Madrid in 1941. He is married with two daughters Laura, by his wife Rakela Cerovic, and Marta, by the late Geraldine Molenveld, his first wife. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French, and lives in Washington DC. 4
Publications As author : Memoria de Washington(A Washington Memoir) Esfera de los Libros, Madrid 2011 El espejismo multilateral (The Multilateral Mirage). Almuzara, Córdoba, 2009. El precio de una sombra (The Price of a Shadow). Destino, Barcelona, 2005. Secuestrado por ETA (Kidnapped by ETA). Temas de Hoy, Madrid, 1991. Primer Libro de Relatos (First Book of Stories). Bitácora. Madrid. 1989. España en la OTAN: relato parcial (Spain and NATO: A Partial Account). Planeta. Barcelona. 1986. Una cierta idea de España (A Certain Idea of Spain). Fund. Humanismo y Democracia. Madrid. 1983. Europa entre el miedo y la esperanza (Europe Caught Between Fear and Hope). Cuadernos para el Dialogo. Madrid. 1975. Estado Confesional y Libertad Religiosa (Religious Freedom in the Confessional State). Cuadernos para el Dialogo. Madrid. 1970. 5
As co-author : Comentarios al Esquema XIII (Essays on Schema XIII). Cuadernos para el Diálogo. Madrid. 1968. As editor : Minorías nacionales en los escritos de Pablo de Azcarate (National Minorities in the Writings of Pablo de Azcarate). Congreso de los Diputados. Madrid. 1998. Diez años en la vida de los españoles (Ten Years in the Life of the Spanish People). Planeta. Barcelona. 1993. El rompecabezas europeo: las nuevas geometrías de la seguridad (The European Security Puzzle: Fitting the New Pieces Together). Fund. Humanismo y Democracia. Madrid. 1993. El decenio González (The González Decade), Encuentro. Madrid. 1992. Problemas culturales de la integración social de los inmigrantes: la nueva Europa y la cuenca sur del Mediterráneo (Cultural Issues in the Social Integration of Immigrants: the New Europe and the southern Mediterranean). Fund. Humanismo y Democracia. Madrid. 1992. España, Europa, Occidente: una política integrada de seguridad (Spain, Europe and the West: Towards An Integrated Security Policy). Distribución y Comunicación. Madrid. 1984. He was one of the founders, in 1963, of the monthly, and later weekly, political magazine Cuadernos para el Diálogo. He has been and remains a regular contributor to Spain s most prominent national newspapers ABC, El Mundo, El País and to a number of leading periodicals Revista de Occidente, Cuadernos de pensamiento politico, Análisis del Instituto Elcano, Cuenta y Razón, Política Exterior, Revista de Libros. He keeps a weeklu colunm in the daily digital El Imparcial. Moreover, he regularly lectures at several Spanish Universities: Complutense (Madrid), 6
San Pablo CEU (Madrid), Menendez Pelayo (Santander), among others. He has been awarded the following decorations Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica, Spain Commander of the Royal and Highly Distinguished Order of Carlos III, Spain Commander of the Royal Order for the Recognition of Victims of Terrorisms Officer of the Order of Isabel la Católica, Spain Officer of the Order of Mérito Civil, Spain Grand Cross of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa of Panama Distinguished Officer of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium Commander, with plaque, of the Order of St. Gregory the Great of the Holy See Commander, with plaque, of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Commander of the Order of St. Charles of Colombia 7
Commander of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal Commander of the Order of Al-Istiqlal of Jordan Commander of the Order of the Arab Republic of Egypt Commander of the Order of Bernardo O Higgins, Chile Officer of the French Legion of Honor Medal, Second Grade, of the Order of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia 8