Senén Florensa

Senén Florensa is the President of the Executive Committee of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the President of the EuroMeSCo General Assembly, a netwok of think tanks on Euro-Mediterranean policy and security. He developed his career as a diplomat and holds a degree in Economic Science and Law from the Universitat de Barcelona and a Diploma in International Studies from the Diplomatic School. He was Consul General of Spain in Rome and Berlin, as well as the Spanish Ambassador to Tunisia. In 1986, he became the first Secretary of the Spanish Embassy at UNESCO. Since 2018, he is the Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna. He was also President of the Mediterranean Commission of the European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC) and vice-president of the Spanish Section. He studied for his PhD in Economics at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and was Fullbright scholarship holder at New York University.