Arancha González

Arancha González (2019)

Arancha González Laya (born May 22, 1969 in San Sebastián ) is a Spanish economist and diplomat. She has been the Spanish Foreign Minister since January 2020.

Origin and education

Arancha González Laya was born in San Sebastián, Basque, and grew up in Tolosa . She studied law at the University of Navarra in Pamplona and then completed a postgraduate degree in European law at the Carlos III University in Madrid . In addition to her native Basque , she speaks Spanish, English, French, German and Italian.

Career

González began her career as a partner in the (then still) German law firm Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann in management consulting with a focus on trade, competition and state aid.

Between 2002 and 2005, González was spokeswoman for the European Commission on Trade and advisor to the EU Commissioner for Foreign Trade Pascal Lamy . She then took on various tasks for the Commission in the field of international trade, including negotiations between the EU and the South American Mercosur , Iran , the Gulf Cooperation Council , the Balkans and the Mediterranean countries. She also advised developing countries on trade options in Europe.

González was chief of staff for Pascal Lamy during his tenure as WTO General Director between 2005 and 2013. In this role, she played a leading role in the introduction of the WTO's Aid for Trade initiative , as well as in the Enhanced Integrated Framework , a joint initiative of various international organizations to strengthen the trade capacities of the world's poorest countries. She worked as the representative of the WTO Director General ( Sherpa ) to the G-20 .

Arancha González (2015)

From 2013 to January 2020 she was Director General of the International Trade Center (ITC) in Geneva .

On January 10, 2020, the non-party Arancha González, who never held a political office in her home country, was nominated as Foreign Minister in the Second Cabinet by Pedro Sánchez , who was sworn in on January 13, 2020. When she took office, she spoke out in favor of a repositioning of Spain in the EU and globally that it would work for the defense of multilateralism and human rights and a reorientation of the policy of international cooperation.

Other tasks

• Member of the Advisory Board of the International Gender Champions Network
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
• Co-Chair of the Council on the Future of International Trade at the World Economic Forum
• Lecturer at the College of Europe in Bruges , at the IELPO in Barcelona , at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern and at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade .

Political positions

González is an advocate of the unity of the state in Spain and a willingness to enter into dialogue on the question of Catalan independence efforts.

Web links

• Mitxel Ezquiaga: Donde hay comercio se habla, y donde hay diálogo no hay guerra . El Diario Vasco . March 25, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
• Alain Faujas: Arancha Gonzalez, la prêtresse du libre-échange . Le Monde . November 30, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
• Naiara Galarraga: Siempre fui un bicho raro, en Tolosa y Ginebra . El País . July 1, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
• Arancha Gonzalez: Seven days - a week in the life of Arancha Gonzalez . July 24, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
• Interview on October 24, 2018 by David Coffey with Arancha Gonzalez

• Arancha Gonzalez: The EU needs a common reconstruction fund . The world . April 23, 2020. Accessed May 4, 2020.

• Profile at the German National Library

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1. ↑ http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/boletines-rne/arantxa-gonzalez-laya-nueva-ministra-exteriores-ue-cooperacion/5480882/ accessed on January 11, 2020
2. ↑ https://elmirondesoria.es/provincia/comarca-de-pinares/la-nueva-ministra-de-exteriores-vinculada-a-navaleno accessed on January 13, 2020
3. ↑ http://www.intracen.org/about/management/arancha-gonzalez/
4. ↑ Ryan Heath and Eline Schaart (2018), Women Who Shape Brussels - 2018 Ranking: Arancha González Politico Europe .
5. ↑ ITC Communications: UN Secretary-General appoints Arancha González of Spain as Executive Director of ITC . International Trade Center. August 15, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
6. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/pedro-sanchez- stellen-neue-regierung-fuer-spanien-vor- 16577769.html accessed on January 13, 2020
7. ↑ https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20200113/arancha-gonzalez-laya-toma-posesion-ministra-exteriores-7804682 accessed on February 4, 2020
8. ↑ Members International Gender Champions (IGC).
9. ^ Advisory Council Mo Ibrahim Foundation
10. ↑ Arancha González Laya World Economic Forum (WEF).
11. ↑ Ryan Heath and Eline Schaart (2018), Women Who Shape Brussels - 2018 Ranking: Arancha González Politico Europe .