Santos Maraver, current Spanish ambassador to the UN, will be Yolanda Díaz’s ‘number two’ in Sumar

Díaz’s new signing participated in the student movement against Francoism, being a representative of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Complutense University. He studied Philosophy and Letters and Political Science and Sociology. In 1982 he entered the diplomatic career. He has been assigned to the Embassies of Beijing, Havana, Washington -where he closely followed the Central American peace negotiations- Canberra, the Spanish Representation before the European Union and has been Consul General in Cape Town and Perpignan, where he paid special attention to the recovery of the Democratic Memory of the republican exile.

Maraver has been Spain’s ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations and Institutions in Geneva and Spain’s permanent representative to the United Nations since September 2018, a role he has held until his termination to participate in the Sumar project.

In Madrid he has been chief of staff of the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation, advisor to the Moncloa diplomatic department with President González, parliamentary advisor and chief of staff to Minister Moratinos in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the Government of José Luis Rodriguez-Zapatero.

As explained by Sumar, Maraver “brings the conviction born from his extensive professional experience that multilateral cooperation is essential to solve the imminent challenges of the future: climate change, the unjust growth of social and gender inequality, the problems of debt and an unsustainable economic model”. “It is necessary to establish a bridge between local and national debates to situate them in the global context and give them viable, democratic and sustainable solutions,” says Díaz’s team.

“For this future horizon to remain open, for it to become a reality, awareness, social mobilization and more democracy and rights are necessary. And that is why he joins Sumar ”, settles his team.