Spain's Jose Enrique Horcajada Schwartz new Head of OSCE Office in Zagreb

ZAGREB, 3 June 2009 - Ambassador Jose Enrique Horcajada Schwartz is the new Head of the OSCE Office in Zagreb.

A former Colonel of the Spanish Royal Marines, Ambassador Horcajada served in different positions at the OSCE Mission and the OSCE Office in Zagreb over the past three years, including as Head of the Sisak field office.

Ambassador Horcajada, who took up his post as Head of the OSCE Office at the end of May, has more than two decades of experience in foreign policy. He served in Brussels as part of the Spanish Representation to the EU's Political and Security Committee and the EU Foreign Affairs Group.

He also worked for the EU Monitoring Mission in Former Yugoslavia, serving as monitor in Tuzla, senior operations officer for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zenica and head of the field office for central Bosnia in Travnik.

Ambassador Horcajada graduated from the Spanish Naval Academy in 1981. He specialized in foreign policy at the Alta Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales in Madrid, in amphibious warfare at the Amphibious Warfare School in Quantico and in International Humanitarian Law.

He succeeds Ambassador Jorge Fuentes, who led the OSCE field operation in Croatia from 2005 until May 2009.