Raimundo
PÉREZ-HERNÁNDEZ Y TORRA

Raimundo Pérez-Hernández y Torra has been director of the Ramón Areces Foundation since 2008. He graduated in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and entered the diplomatic career in 1976. Until joining the Ramón Areces Foundation, he developed his professional career in public administration, where he held the following positions: counselor at the Permanent Delegation of Spain to the United Nations Office; economic and commercial counselor at the Embassy of Spain in the French Republic; head of Protocol of the Presidency of the Government, with the rank of director general; Executive Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with the rank of Undersecretary; Permanent Representative Ambassador to the United Nations Office and other international organizations based in Geneva; and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He has been Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Austria and Introducer of Ambassadors, MAEC, with the rank of Ambassador.