Alejandro Agag
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Alejandro Tarik Agag Longo 18 September 1970 Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Chairman of Addax Capital LLP; Owner of Barwa Addax GP2 Series Team; former Chairman of Queens Park Rangers F.C. |
| Known for | Spanish businessman and former politician. His present interests lie in the fields of finance, advertising and sports |
| Partner(s) | Ana Aznar Botella |
Alejandro Tarik Agag Longo (born 18 September 1970, in Madrid) is a Spanish businessman and former politician, based in London as the Chairman of Addax Capital LLP.
Born to an Algerian-Belgian father Youssef Agag, who was a banker, and a Spanish mother, Agag enjoyed an international upbringing in Madrid, Paris and New York. Agag graduated with a degree in Economics and Business studies from the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF) in Madrid and is fluent in four languages, Spanish, English, French and Italian.
Agag’s political career began when, at the early age of 18, he became a member of Nuevas Generaciones (NNGG), the youth organization of the main center-right Spanish party Partido Popular, which at the time was in the opposition. Having been actively involved in politics while at University, he quickly moved up the ranks of the youth structure of the party, joining, due to his knowledge of languages, the international relations department.
During that time Agag travelled extensively representing NNGG in organizations such as DEMYC and EYCD, center-right parties from Europe and the world that brought together youth political branches. Agag was elected International Secretary of NNGG at their congress in 1994.
In the same year, Agag graduated in economics and was offered the position of Deputy Secretary General of the European People’s Party. An offer that was as a direct result of the election – a few months earlier – of the German Klaus Welle as Secretary General. Welle and Agag met in the youth organizations level, and Welle took Agag with him to the EPP – Agag was 23 at the time. That year, Agag also ran for a seat in the European Parliament, he campaigned in towns and villages in Extremadura; he was not elected at this time.
As deputy secretary general, Agag was in charge of coordinating the different policy working groups within the EPP, and drafting of policy papers to be presented at the congress. As DSG Agag was a member of the EPP Summit, which meets before the European Council meetings and includes all of EPP’s Heads of State and Government.
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