Alfonso Dastis
| Alfonso Dastis | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 4 November 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
| Preceded by | José Manuel García-Margallo |
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Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo 5 October 1955 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | CEU San Pablo University |
Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo (born, October 5, 1955) is a Spanish diplomat, currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain. Previous to his naming he held several positions within the Spanish Diplomatic Corps.
In the 1970s, Dastis studied law at the CEU San Pablo University, followed by the public Complutense University of Madrid. He embarked on a doctoral thesis on the freedom of establishment of insurance companies, but abandoned it in 1983.
Dastis entered the Diplomatic Corps in 1983. As a career diplomat he held several positions linked to the ministry and international institution, such as the Spanish Embassy to the UN, the Minister's Staff, the Prime Minister's Office. In 2002 he was named Secretary General for European Affairs.
Between 1987 and 1989, Dastis worked as a law clerk for one of his former professors, Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, Spain’s first judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and a subsequent president of that court.
As Spain’s legal adviser at the United Nations, Dastis deputised occasionally for Spain’s ambassador in 1993-94 when Spain held a seat on the United Nations Security Council and cast Spain’s vote at the Security Council meeting that accepted the Czech Republic and Slovakia as members after they had split.
Dastis was EU adviser to José Maria Aznar from 1996 to 2000. Among other things, he was in charge of organising Spain’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, which ran in the first half of 2002. At the end of 2001, Aznar nominated him as Spanish delegate to the Convention on the Future of Europe, alongside Ana de Palacio y del Valle-Lersundi. In this capacity, he pushed against making the Union’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP) subject to the jurisdiction of the ECJ.
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