Brigadier General of the Army, Venancio Aguado de Diegowill occupy the autonomous Secretariat of the Office of the Vice President for the Economic and social recovery of the Valencian Community, as reported by the Generalitat.
Aguado de Diego, who left for the reserve in March 2020will join the department headed by the lieutenant general of the Army, Francisco José Gan Pampolsresponsible for coordinating the actions of the Consell for the reconstruction of the areas of the province of Valencia affected by the flood of October 29.
Venancio Aguado was born in 1961 and belongs to Promotion XL of the General Military Academy, being promoted to infantry lieutenant in July 1985.
He holds a degree in Mountain Troops Command and served in different units of this specialty in Jaca, San Sebastian and Pamplona.
After completing the staff course and becoming a commander, he served in the headquarters of the mountain brigade. In 2005, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the Operations Division of the Army General Staff, before being appointed Chief of Staff of the Mountain Hunters Brigade.
After passing through the General Staff of the Light Forces, he was promoted to colonel in 2012, commanding the 45th Garellano Regiment in Biscay and chief of staff of the Armed Forces Intelligence Center. In 2016, he was appointed brigadier general, assuming command of the “Canarias” operational brigade.
He was deployed on NATO missions in Kosovoas head of operations of AGT Aragón and in Afghanistanin the Future Operations Section of the Multinational Brigade of Region W. In 2017, he commanded the Eastern Sector of the United Nations mission in the Lebanon.
He is in possession, among other decorations and recognitions, of the Grand Cross of Military Merit, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Herménégille, the Order of Merit of the Lebanese Republic and eight Crosses of Merit Military, Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard and Cross of Police Merit.
