Ambassador Ricardo López-Aranda is a career diplomat and the current Spanish ambassador to Ukraine. He has also been the Ambassador of Spain to Côte d’Ivoire and to Liberia. Among other responsibilities at the Spanish Foreign Service, he has been Director of Policy Planning and Director for Common Foreign and Security Policy. He also has been posted to the Political and Security Committee of the EU in Brussels and to the Embassies of Spain in South Africa and in Nicaragua. His publications cover the following topics: Strategic Foresight, Perspectives for the European Union and the West in a changing global order, European Security, Disinformation, and Africa.

Diego Herrero de Egaña

He has a varied professional experience in the private and public sector such as business associations, EU Institutions and Spanish Administration. He has participated in transnational projects in EU candidate and neighbouring countries, electoral observation missions and collaborated in numerous projects in the maritime and fishing sector at the national and international levels. He holds a “licenciatura en derecho” (LL.B. Degree) and a Master’s degree in International Development Cooperation.