University of Oxford China Centre Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Ambassador Jorge Toledo is a career diplomat from Spain. After taking his Degree in Law and entering the Diplomatic School in Spain, he joined the Spanish Foreign Service in 1989. Since then, except for three years in Senegal, where he was Ambassador of Spain from 2008 to 2011, his career has been devoted mostly to European Union Affairs. Among other positions, he was Spanish European advisor and EU Sherpa for the Spanish President of the Government from 2012 to 2016 and Secretary of State for the EU and European Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In Asia, he has been posted to India and twice in Japan, the second time as Ambassador of Spain from 2018 to 2022, before arriving to China in September 2022 as the Ambassador of the European Union.

Ambassador Toledo strongly believes in the European integration and that only together can EU Member States have a meaningful relation and dialogue with a strong world power as China.