Javier Arregui Primer consejero de la delegación de la Unión Europea en Panamá, coordinador regional para la cooperación en temas digitales y del espacio

Javier Arregui is First Counsellor at the Embassy of the European Union in Panama. He currently serves as coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean region for cooperation on digital and space issues and his activity is closely linked to the Copernicus programme.Javier Arregui is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, a Master in Network Architecture from the National School of Telecommunications in Paris and a diploma in Advanced Studies in Political Science from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona. He worked for ten years in the telecommunications sector in France and Spain in the areas of research in teletraffic in digital transmission networks, standards and business development. He was an associate professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Telecommunications Public Policies. He subsequently joined the service of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, where he has twenty years of experience spread across internal policies - internal market for radio equipment, spectrum management - and external policies - resolution of technical barriers to trade, negotiation of trade agreements and procurement of critical raw materials for the ecological and digital transition.