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Biography

Born: 27 July 1967, Badajoz, Spain

Status: Married, three children.

Languages: Spanish (native), English, French, Portuguese.

Education:

• Degree in Political Science (5-year Degree)
• Ph.D. on International Peace and Security

Professional Experience:

• 1984-1986: Different positions in private sector companies.
• 1986-1995: Official, Department of Culture, Government of Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.
• 1995-1998: EU official, Merger Task Force, DG Competition, EU Commission, Brussels
• 1998-2002: Desk Officer, United States Unit, DG Relex, EU Commission, Brussels
• 2002-2005: EU official, External Service Directorate, EU Commission, Brussels
• 2005-2007: First Secretary, Head of Political and Pre-Accession Affairs, EC Delegation in Bulgaria, Sofia
• 2007-2009: Senior Policy Advisor, on secondment to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London
• 2009-2014: Deputy Head of Division for EU-West Africa relations, EEAS, Brussels
• 2014-2019: Deputy Head of Division for EU-Mexico, Central America and Caribbean relations, EEAS, Brussels.

Other information of interest:

German Marshall Fund Fellow; Fulbright grantee; Salzburg seminar presentor. Articles and lectures in EU and US
media. Laureate in 5 open compet

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If Raed Arafat has always been popular among Romanians, it is undoubtedly because they have always felt close to this Palestinian from Syria who founded the Emergency Mobile Reanimation and Extraction Service or SMURD.

Born in Damascus in 1964, Raed Arafat discovered a passion for "first aid" at the age of 14. Still in high school, he worked with a city hospital and he created the first emergency team which included some of his colleagues. Medicine, at first a simple passion, would become a professional goal. His father wanted him to attend Polytechnic but Raed had sworn "to become either a doctor or a garbage collector".

He came to Romania aged 16 and a half, because, he says, "it is the country that responded the most quickly to my request for admission to university [the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu operated a system which allowed residents of Arab countries to study in Romania]. "I found out later that I was also admitted in Greece and in the United States, but my parents didn't tell me about the American response out of fear that I would go over there and never come back. They hoped to see me return from Romania," he explains.

"Enemy of health reform"

In 1989, after obtaining his diploma, he had the chance to go to France. But in December, because of the revo