Javier Rupérez

Javier Rupérez combined a diplomatic career with elected politics. After serving as Spain’s ambassador to the United States in 2000–2004, he became executive director of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. He then served as Spain’s consul general in Chicago in 2007–2011. In an interview with the International Catalan Institute for Peace, he discussed the international response to terrorism from those successive positions. ^{1, 2}