maría jesús figa

María Jesús Figa López-Palop is a graduate in Law and joined the Diplomatic Career in 1978.She has been posted to the Spanishrepresentations in Ivory Coast (1978-80), Mexico (1984-88) and Lisbon (1990-94).

In 2000 she was appointed adviser in the Cabinet of the President of the Spanish Government where she worked until 2002, when she was appointed Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and, subsequently, Ambassador-at-Large for the Ibero-American Summits andMultilateral Affairs in Ibero-America, and also Director General forInternational Economic Relations (2005).In 2007 she was appointed Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, a post she held until 2010 when she was appointed Ambassador to the Holy See.She has been Spanish Ambassador to Finland(2011) and to Vietnam (2017).