Rodriguez performed military service in the Spanish Arapiles Regiment (twinned with the British Royal Lancers)[8] and in the Major State of the IV Military Region. He received the Distinguished Service Diploma. Later made an internship in the organizing committee for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Career
In the Spanish Foreign Service, Rodriguez served in the Spanish embassies to Italy, San Marino, Albania and Malta, as well as director of two centres of the Instituto Cervantes (temporary coordinator of third one),[9] and in the Spanish Consulate General in Milano. He also served as a coordinator of the House for a City of Knowledge within the City Council of Barcelona.
Rodriguez has been a consultant of the EU bodies EACEA,[10] TAIEX[11] and REA, as well as a member of researches for the European Council and the European Parliament. He participated in one of the feasibility reports of the FRA and in the forums of the Holy See, the IDEA, the Aspen Institute, the COMECE, the Club of Rome and the OMAEC (World Organisation of Former Pupils of Catholic Education).
He is currently ambassador-consultant of the Fundação Rei Afonso Henriques[18] of public cooperation Spain–Portugal and a member of the Advisory Council on International of Foment Nacional del Treball (CEOE), the Advisory Council of the Fundación Pere Closa,[19] the Xarxa Vives d'Universitats[20] and the Scientific Committee of the public magazine Mediterráneo.[21]
Rodriguez has participated in research, both in public and private universities around Europe, which primarily study intercultural and interfaith dialogue, among those in the GRIC (Groupe de Recherche Islamo-Chretien, settled in Paris).[25] He has been involved in the design of policies that are inclusive towards minorities in the European Union and encourage the involvement of minorities in European society. He is a foremost expert on the Roma people in Europe.[26]
An Author of several essays and history books[27][28] (the last one entries for the dictionary "Vislumbres",[29] 2021, edited by the Spanish Foreign Office), he is correspondent fellow of the Royal Academy of History[30] (Spain) and also of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna[31] (Italy). He has been distinguished with some public decorations, both national and international, among others the rarely conceded Order of the Social Solidarity[32] awarded by H.M. King Felipe VI of Spain.
Rodriguez has one son.[37] Their traditional family seat is in Alcañices, in the county of Aliste, closed to the Portuguese border, once abandoned the previous one in the county of the Castle of Algoso in the 18th century.
Among his ancestors can be found Pablo Muñoz de la Morena, Tomás Pellicer, Roque López or José Rodríguez, who was declared two times Meritorious of the Homeland (1860 and 1876) by the Spanish Parliament.[38] His grandfather Melchor received the Medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for helping another castaway in a shipwrecked at the Atlantic.
One of his direct relatives is the TV illusionist Miguel de Lucas of La 2 (Spanish TV channel). Other current ones are Rodrigo Martins, Mayor of Miranda do Douro and Toninho Munhoz, Mayor of Alfenas.
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