Irune Aguirrezábal Quijera
Representative of the Basque Government in Madrid
Irune Aguirrezábal Quijera is Representative of the Basque Government in Madrid.
With the arrival of current President Patxi López to the Basque Government she was appointed, Director for Development Cooperation, followed by a two years mandate as Director General for the EU and Foreign Affairs, working for the Presidency, Basque Government (Spain). She has been Adviser to the Vice-President of the Government of Spain, in the areas of foreign policy and migration.
She worked as Expert on strengthening the legal framework on counter-Terrorism, at the West and Central African regional office in Dakar, depending on UNODC. She also worked as a consultant for the European Commission and the International Criminal Court. For over 6 years she was the Director and Europe Coordinator of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court, based on Brussels, New York and The Hague, promoting the ratification/implementation of the Rome Statute and the EU’s support for international criminal justice. Prior to that she worked as Head of the EU’s office of the Movimiento por la paz, desarme y libertad, MPDL (NGO development cooperation and humanitarian assistance).
Some of her publications include: La Europa Comunitaria: Ciudadanía y Derechos Humanos, 1996, Postgrado de Estudios Europeos. Instituto de Estudios Europeos, Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao), The International Criminal Court: a challenge to impunity, 1999, Master de Relaciones Internacionales. Centre d’Etudes des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bélgica), The United Nations Responsibility towards Victims of Terrorist Acts, 2005, FRIDE (Madrid), La diáspora libanesa en África Occidental, 2006, El Correo, El cambio climático: nosotros también podemos, 2010, El Correo, La Corte Penal internacional, 1998, El País.
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Expert in
Spoken languages
English, French, Spanish
Written languages
English, French, Spanish
