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Regarding your professional career; Colonel De la Guardia, is an infantry officer and an intelligence graduate. He has developed most of his career in Intelligence Units where he was stationed in the jobs of Captain, Commander, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. His latest assignments include the Intelligence Regiment I of the ET, the NATO Transformation Command (ACT) in Norfolk USA, where he worked as an analyst in the strategic intelligence section and the High Availability Terrestrial Headquarters (NRDC SP_OTAN ) in Bétera Valencia, where he served as Head of the Information Operations section –Info Ops- (2008 -2013). In 2005, he was appointed head of the ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting) Battalion on the occasion of the formation of NATO's NATO Response Force 5. He has also been linked to teaching and research, assigned as Colonel Director of the Intelligence Department at the Higher School of the Armed Forces, where he has worked as professor and coordinating director of the Higher Intelligence Course of the Armed Forces during the last seven years, before his transfer to the reserve in 2020. He has participated in three international missions in various settings, mainly in the Balkan area and in the Middle East. Regarding his academic training; He has taken numerous military courses among which we can highlight the following courses: • National military courses: Intelligence and security course for officers, Psychological Operations course for officers, Parachuting, • International military courses. At the NATO Defense School in Oberammergau (Germany): NATO staff Officer course, NATO intelligence course, NATO Psichological Operations Course and Nato Info Ops Course. He has a military level credential in the English language.

Doctor in Social Sciences from UCAM, graduate in Criminology from the University of Alicante, graduated in Security from the Antonio de Nebrija University. Higher degree in Criminology from the University of Alicante, own degree of University Professional Specialization in Police Sciences from the University of Valencia. Lecturer at the Antonio de Nebrija University and the Valencian Government Council. Local Police Officer, head of the Traffic Unit with an antiquity of 24 years. More than 100 professional training courses with more than 50 recognized and endorsed by the Institute of Public Safety and Emergency of the Valencian Community. Communications on public safety at various international conferences on global safety. Collaborating teacher of the FUNCOVIAL foundation (foundation for the Teaching and Promotion of Road Safety Education). Collective congratulations on road safety education and individual congratulations for merits in public safety by the Valencian Community Safety Department. Infanta María Teresa Police Merit Cross granted by the Ministry of the Interior.

Police Chief. Currently, as Director of Security and International Relations Analyst, he collaborates with prestigious educational and organizational centers. The most significant activities and functions performed: Brigade Chief at the General Information Commissary. General directorate of police. Ministry of Interior. 2011/19; Head of the Spanish Delegation for the COREPER Terrorism Working Group (GTT) in the European Union. 2015/19; Head of the Spanish Delegation for the Police Working Group on Terrorism (PWGT) of the Police and Security Services network for the fight against terrorism. 2012/18; Head of Delegation of the CNP for meetings of Senior Officials in EUROPOL; Delegation member of the DGP in the elaboration of the EU Directive DATIX 12/13; Delegation member of the DGP in the elaboration of the EU Directive ECRIS 12/13. He was appointed Attaché of the Ministry of the Interior to the Spanish Embassy in Rome 1990-2007 and accredited to Italy, Albania, San Marino and Malta. Academic training: Higher Specialist Course in Security Management and Direction from the Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid; Postgraduate-Diploma in Studies of the European Communities, Diplomatic School, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Degree in Political Science and Sociology. International Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid, Law Studies at the Central University of Barcelona and the UNED. Complementary academic training: he has various training actions, including the Seminar on Security Direction and Management. DGP. Ministry of Interior; Police Strategic Management Course. DGP. Ministry of Interior; Higher course on organized crime, money laundering and financing of terrorism. Secretary of State for Security. Ministry of Interior. Collaborations: Speaker in Specialist Courses in Communication and Security, of the Institute of High Police Studies and the CEU San Pablo University; Speaker at Master Courses in Strategic Management of Public Security, at the Institute of Higher Police Studies and the Rey Juan Carlos University; Speaker at the Summer Course-El Escorial 2016. Complutense University of Madrid; Speaker at the International Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programs of the General Directorate of the Police, Ministry of the Interior (years 2012 to 2018); Speaker at various specialized conferences, congresses and seminars, organized by Universidad NEBRIJA, CESEDEN, INCIPE, TEDAE and Speaker at the General Directorate of Police in Ibero-American and European Centers.

Graduated in Security Sciences from the Antonio de Nebrija University and graduated in numerous national and international courses in matters of security and intelligence, in 2009 he began his career in international cooperation in security matters, in particular, in the fight against transnational organized crime from the Europol National Unit, working as an operational information investigator. During three years at the European Agency Europol, as an Operational Analyst in the fight against human trafficking and illegal immigration, he trained as a Technician in Device Extractions (UFED) developing training tasks at European level. Currently, he continues to develop his operational work in the field of intelligence, handling all strategic information at Europol level. With extensive experience in international training, he has been a speaker in several training courses for professionals in matters of analysis, as well as director of courses for access to the Security Forces and Bodies in different areas of knowledge.

Doctor of Law, outstanding Cum Laude with Extraordinary Award. Law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. Lawyer of the Illustrious Madrid Bar Association. Diploma in Intelligence and Information from the CESID, the CIA, the MOSSAD, the FBI, and the SIGC. Higher Diploma in Information and Judicial Police. Expert in Criminalistics. Professor accredited by ANECA. Professor hired in the Degree in Law and Criminology, and Professor of the European Union Master at CEU San Pablo University. Professor of the Master of Criminalistics at the Camilo José Cela University. Professor at the Institute of Forensic and Security Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid in the Intelligence Expert course. Director of summer courses "Summer University" and Extraordinary Sessions of Criminology at CEU San Pablo University. Director of Seminars on Ballistics and Instrumental Traces, and Researcher at the Institute of Forensic Sciences and Security of the University of Alcalá de Henares. Collaborating professor with the Judicial School of Barcelona and with the Center for Legal Studies of Madrid. Collaborating professor with the Specialization School of the Civil Guard. Professor of the Phare Program of the European Union in Romania. He has published documents with the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies on high crime strategies, and on the confluence between terrorism and organized crime; also in scientific journals of Law on the criminal responsibility of legal persons, on Immigration Law, on Organized Crime and its attack on Public Order, on the Expert Evidence of Police Intelligence, on the Undercover Agent, and on sociological issues of culture related to crime. He has published three essays on Organized Crime, on the Russian Mafia, and on specific forms of Crime and Terrorism; He has collaborated with other authors in various publications on investigative acts against organized crime, on intelligence against the penetration of crime and terrorism, and on the end of domestic intelligence. Coordinator and co-author of the work "Intelligence Manual". Author of Novela Negra y de Investigación. Former member of the Spanish Intelligence Service.

Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery and Diploma of the General Staff, he is currently a professor in the Operations Department of the Higher School of the Armed Forces of CESEDEN (Higher Center for National Defense Studies). He graduated in Law from the National University of Distance Education. Diploma in Higher International Studies from the Society for International Studies. Master in Military History from INISEG. Diploma in NBC Defense from the NBC School of the Army. Intelligence, Counterintelligence and Security Course at the NATO School. Joint Targeting Course at the NATO School. Common and Security Defense Policy Course of the European Security and Defense College He has been professor of NBC Defense at the NBC Defense School of the Army and collaborator in the Higher Intelligence Course in lectures on Intelligence Support in Targeting. He has published several articles highlighting "Mali and the Peace Process" (Strategy Notebook 202 of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies) and about Wargaming (Army Magazine).

Doctor in Methodology, Sources and Legal Institutions, specialty in Procedural-Criminal Law, from the University of Antonio Nebrija; Degree in Criminology from the University of Alicante; and he has taken numerous specialized courses internationally. He has been module coordinator of the International Official Master “European Joint Masters in Strategic Border Management” of Frontex and teacher within the European project I.F.O. ILLEGAL FLOW OBSERVATION, from the Rocco Chinnici Foundation, the University of Palermo and the University of Salamanca; and he has extensive experience as a professor both at the FCSE and at different universities.

Extensive professional experience in the specialties of combating illicit drug trafficking, international terrorism and international cooperation, in operational areas and national and international organizations, working in units in the areas of Judicial Police and Foreign Information. He has been Head of the International Police Cooperation Unit (leading the Interpol-Europol-Sirene NCBs), and Head of Division. Visiting professor at conferences, seminars and analysis centers. He has published various works. Counselor of the Embassy. Elected member of the Interpol Executive Committee. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Europol. Member of the ICAO Technical Advisory Group. National Authority MRTD Spain and Member of the Governing Board of the National Police. He is Honorary Chief Commissioner, researching and collaborating on these matters with various institutions and training and reflection centers.

Doctor in Geography and History. He is a professor in the Department of Library Science and Documentation at the Carlos III University of Madrid, professor at the Ortega-Marañón Foundation, professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization at GEO Spain (University of Oregon Program), professor of Paleography and Diplomat of the Course Archivistics of the General Gutiérrez Mellado-UNED university institute, professor-tutor of the master's degree Contemporary Spain in the International Context of the Department of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Geography and History of the UNED, professor of the Preventive Conservation of Documents, Books and Material course Graphic from the General Gutiérrez-UNED university institute, professor of the Contemporary World subject in the Security degree at the Antonio de Nebrija University in Madrid. He has been visiting professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2017 and professor of Spanish History in the summer program of Georgia Southern University in Segovia for five years.