Ángeles Moreno Bau
Ambassador of Spain to the United States
Assumed office
17 January 2024
MonarchFelipe VI
Preceded bySantiago Cabanas
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
21 July 2021 – 20 December 2023
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byCristina Gallach
Succeeded byDiego Martínez Belío
Secretary of State for International Cooperation
In office
7 February 2020 – 21 July 2021
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byJuan Pablo de Laiglesia
Succeeded byPilar Cancela Rodríguez
Personal details
Born1968
Madrid
NationalitySpanish

Ángeles Moreno Bau (born 1968) is a Spanish diplomat who has been serving as ambassador of Spain to the United States since 2024.

Previously, she has been Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the second government of Pedro Sánchez from 2021 to 2023 and Secretary of State for International Cooperation from 2020 to 2021.

Early life and education

Born in Madrid in 1968, Moreno earned a licentiate degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).[1] She also studied sociology at The American University in Cairo and international law at the University of Vienna.[2]

Career

Having joined the diplomatic corps in 1994,[1] Moreno was destined to Mexico, Sierra Leone, Cairo, Panama and Moscow.[2] She was appointed as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation in July 2018.[2]

Following the formation of a new government in January 2020 and the appointment of Arancha González Laya as new foreign minister, Moreno was entrusted a Secretariat of State solely responsible for international cooperation, removed from the General State Administration since 2011.[1] She took office on 7 February 2020.[3]

In July 2021, the new Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, appointed her as the 14th Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.[4]

In January 2024, she was appointed as ambassador of Spain to the United States, being the first woman to hold the office.[5]

Other activities

  • Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Member of the Board of Trustees[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "La diplomática Ángeles Moreno Bau, nueva secretaria de Estado de cooperación internacional". eldiario.es. 4 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ángeles Moreno sustituye a Beatriz Larrotcha al frente de la Subsecretaría de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación". Crónicas de la Emigración. 14 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Laya anima al nuevo equipo a reforzar lazos y el lugar de España en el mundo". La Vanguardia. 7 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "Ángeles Moreno, Juan Fernández y Pilar Cancela, al frente de las nuevas Secretarías de Estado de Exteriores". Europa Press. 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  5. ↑ EP (2024-01-16). "El Gobierno nombra a las nuevas embajadoras en EEUU y China". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  6. ↑ Governance Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).


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