EU High Representative Joe Borrell Announces Appointment of Fernando Aguirre, Vice Chairman of DHS

DHS Group announces today that its Vice Chairman, Fernando Aguirre, has been appointed by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, as senior appointment in the European External Action Service (EEAS):

Fernando Aguirre, Executive Vice chairman of DHS, as Assistant Deputy Secretary-General of the EEAS for Economic and Global Affairs. He was previously Associate Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Trade (DG Trade) of the European Commission, in charge of Directorates covering Services and Digital Trade, Investment, Intellectual Property Rights, countries of South and Southeast Asia, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand, African Caribbean and Pacific countries, Trade and Sustainable Development, the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP), and Conflict Minerals. He was also responsible for DG Trade units in Beijing and Tokyo and was Chief negotiator for Free Trade Agreements with Vietnam, Mexico, Indonesia and Australia. Ms König took up his role in the EEAS on September 1, 2021.