A Brigadier General to Become Second-in-Command at the Vice Presidency for Economic and Social Recovery

Brigadier General Venancio Aguado de Diego from the Army will become the second-in-command at the vice presidency led by fellow military officer Francisco José Gan Pampols. Aguado will take on the role of Autonomous Secretary in the vice president's cabinet for Economic and Social Recovery of the Community.

The military officer, who retired in March 2020, joins the team headed by the lieutenant general, who will coordinate all the Consell's actions for the reconstruction of the areas in the province of Valencia affected by recent floods.

Born in 1961, Aguado is part of the 40th Class of the General Military Academy, having been promoted to infantry lieutenant in July 1985. He is a graduate in Mountain Troop Command and has served in various units of this specialty in Jaca, San Sebastián, and Pamplona.

After completing the Staff Course and as a commander, he served at the General Headquarters of the Mountain Brigade. In 2005, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the Operations Division of the Army Staff, later becoming Chief of Staff of the Mountain Hunters Brigade.

After his tenure at the General Headquarters of Light Forces, he was promoted to Colonel in 2012, commanding the Garellano 45 Regiment in Bizkaia and the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Intelligence Center. In 2016, he was appointed Brigadier General, assuming command of the 'Canarias' Operational Brigade.

Among the missions he has been deployed to are NATO operations in Kosovo, where he served as Chief of Operations of AGT Aragón, as well as in Afghanistan, in the Future Operations Section of the Multinational Brigade in Region W. In 2017, he commanded the Eastern Sector of the United Nations mission in Lebanon.

He holds, among other decorations and recognitions, the Grand Cross of Military Merit, the Grand Cross of the Order of San Hermenegildo, the Order of Merit of the Lebanese Republic, and eight Crosses of Military Merit, the Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard, and the Cross of Police Merit.