Promoting European co-productions of series

He holds a degree in Law from the University of Salamanca, a Master’s degree in Public Management from the Carlos III University and a Master’s degree in International Politics from the University of Paris, and is a member of the Senior Corps of Civil State Administrators.

Among his most recent professional activities, in July 2012 he was appointed Counsellor for Education at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels, until July 2017, when he returned to Spain to become Deputy Director General for International Cooperation and Promotion of Culture at the Secretariat of State for Culture of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, later the Ministry of Culture and Sport, where he took over the national coordination of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018 and the secretariat of the National Commission to Commemorate the V Centenary of the First Circumnavigation of the World by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano. In June 2022 he joins the Spanish Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), where he is currently Deputy Director General for Promotion and International Relations.

 

With almost forty years of experience in the audiovisual sector, I have led teams at ICEX and SGAE, attracting filming and foreign investment and negotiating at an international level. My experience includes rights management, creating legal initiatives and promoting the industry at key events such as Cannes and Berlin. I have worked actively with international and national organizations, holding executive positions in European and Latin American associations and promoting the growth of the audiovisual sector in Spain.