Brigadier General of the Army Venancio Aguado de Diegoin the reserve, will occupy the Autonomous Secretariat of the cabinet of the vice president for the Economic and Social Recovery of the Valencian CommunityLieutenant General Francisco José Gan PampolsThe Consell reported this Wednesday.
The Vice Presidency of Gan Pampols is in charge of coordinating the actions of the Valencian Government for the reconstruction of the areas affected by the damage of last October 29.
Aguado de Diego, born in 1961, was general chief of the ‘Canarias’ Brigade and has been deployed in NATO missions in Kosovo and Afghanistanand in the United Nations in the Lebanon.
The Consell has reported the appointment of the brigadier general in a press release, after this Tuesday it made public that Army Lieutenant General Francisco José Gan Pampols, currently in retirement, will assume the Vice Presidency of the Valencian Government to Economic and Social Recovery.
Diego’s Aguado, which went into reserve in March 2020belongs to the XL Promotion of the General Military Academy, being promoted to the position of infantry lieutenant in July 1985.
He has a diploma in Mountain Troop Command and served in different units of this specialty in Jaca, San Sebastián and Pamplona.
After completing the General Staff course and becoming a commander, he served at the Mountain Brigade Headquarters. In 2005 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the Operations Division of the Army General Staff, later being named Chief of Staff of the Mountain Hunters Brigade.
After passing through the Light Forces Headquarters, he was promoted to colonel in 2012, commanding the 45th Garellano Regiment in Bizkaia and the Chief of Staff of the Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces. In 2016 he was appointed brigadier general, assuming command of the ‘Canarias’ Operational Brigade.
He was deployed on missions of the NATO in Kosovo, as Chief of Operations of the AGT Aragón and in Afghanistan, in the Future Operations Section of the Multinational Brigade of Region W. In 2017 he commanded the Eastern Sector of the United Nations mission in Lebanon.
Aguado de Diego is in possession, among other decorations and recognitions, of the Grand Cross of Military Meritof the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Hermenegild, of the Order of Merit of the Lebanese Republic and of eight Crosses of Military Merit, the Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard and the Cross of Police Merit.