Career
He has served as the President of Cantabria, one of Spain"s seventeen autonomous regions, from 2011 to 2015. Ignacio Diego was elected President of the Atlantic Arc Commission, a multi-national association of Atlantic European regions consisting of 26 political regions from France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, at a conference held from May 31 to June 1, 2012. Diego (and Cantabria) is currently serving a two-year term as President of the AAC from 2012 to 2014.
His presidency succeeded that of the French region of Lower Normandy, which had held it from 2008 to 2012.
