Pilar Fuertes Ferragut

Pilar Fuertes Ferragut (19 July 1962 – 2 April 2012) was a Spanish diplomat who served as the ambassador of Spain to Zimbabwe, accredited also to Malawi and Zambia, from 2008 until her death in 2012.

Biography Fuertes Ferragut was born in Valencia, Spain, on 19 July 1962 and obtained a law degree before entering the Spanish Diplomatic Service in 1992. She was the sister of the wife of the politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca.

She held a variety of different positions in the from 1994 to 1996 and then served as the Second Head of the Spanish Embassies in Beirut (Lebanon), Jakarta (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand) and Guatemala between 1996 and 2003.

Fuertes Ferragut later returned to Madrid and became the deputy director for the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the Philippines in 2004, She was appointed the second head of the Spanish Embassy in Cairo, Egypt in April 2008, and was made ambassador to Zimbabwe on 8 November 2008.

She was appointed by Royal Decree as the Spanish ambassador to Zambia by Juan Carlos I on 12 June 2010 following a proposal being made by Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and discussions with the Council of Ministers. In 1998, Fuertes Ferragut was decorated with the Lady's Ribbon of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and received the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit six years later. Fuertes Ferragut's body would be repatriated to Spain,

Legacy In April 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the exhibition Spirit of Friendship. Between Two Waters that featured works by artists from Zimbabwe in tribute to Fuertes Ferragut.