Chairman of the Board of Directors of General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas Born in Stockholm on October 12, 1935, Antonio de Oyarzábal is a law graduate from the Complutense University of Madrid and has fulfilled different positions within the Spanish Diplomacy during his broad professional career. He has been the Spanish Ambassador in Quito (Ecuador), between 1981 and 1983; in Tokyo (Japan) between 1990 and 1994; in Copenhagen (Denmark), between 1994 and 1996; and in Washington (United States), between 1996 and 2000. Prior to that he was the General Director of the Diplomacy Information Office (1979-1981) and the General Manager of International Technical Cooperation (1985-1989), among other positions. With awards from numerous foreign governments, he is presently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas and Deputy Chairman of the Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos (Elcano Institute of Strategic and International Studies).
