Patrick Sandoval

Patrick Sandoval was born in Madrid to a Spanish father and American mother. He joined the Spanish Foreign Service in December 2008 and has a passion for the geopolitics of Asia (South Asia in particular). His first posting was in Dhaka Bangladesh in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza tragedy where he served as Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Spain. From Dhaka he was cross posted to New Delhi India where he was Head of the Consular Section covering five fascinating countries of the Indian Subcontinent. More recently he has worked in the Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid with a focus on China serving simultaneously as Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He currently lives with his family in Yangon Myanmar where he is enjoying a leave of absence from the Foreign Service while nurturing his understanding of the region and of parenting during a pandemic and a coup.