Ambassador Lecture Series of AEI
Spanish Diplomacy and The Global South
by Ambassador of Spain to Malaysia & Brunei

Short Biography

Speaker

H.E. José Luis PARDO CUERDO, born on August 22, 1967, in Segovia, Spain, is a seasoned diplomat and legal scholar. With a degree in Law, he has held key roles in Spanish diplomacy, including Deputy Head of Mission in Tripoli and Amman, Counsellor in Berlin, and Ambassador in Niger. His career highlights also include serving as Deputy Director General for General and Economic Affairs of the European Union and Ambassador in Special Mission for Migratory Affairs.

Throughout his career, he has received several honors, such as Commander of the Order of Civil Merit and Commander of the Order of Merit of Niger. In addition to his diplomatic accomplishments, José Luis is well-educated, holding a degree in Art History and a Diploma of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges.

Currently, he serves as the Ambassador of Spain to Malaysia & Brunei, a position he assumed on August 4, 2022, further solidifying his role as a respected figure in the field of international diplomacy.

Moderator

Distinguished Professor Dato’ Dr. Rajah Rasiah obtained his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University in 1992 and served as a fellow at Harvard University in 2014. He was also the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at UNIMAS (1999-2000), and at Faculty of Economics and Administration in the University of Malaya in 2009–2010 and 2013–2014. He also holds professorial fellow positions at the Centre for Rising Powers in Cambridge University, UNU-MERIT, and Technology Management and Development Centre in Oxford University. Among his prestigious awards include the Cambridge Journal of Economics Award by the Cambridge Political Economy Trust in 1992, the Robert McNamara Award by the World Bank in 1993, the Celso Furtado Prize for advancing the frontiers of Social Science thought (Economics) from the World Academy of Sciences in 2014, and the Merdeka Prize under the category of scholastic achievement in 2018 from the Merdeka Prize Committee. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor of Economics Position by the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia in 2017.

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