Mr. Andres B. Munoz Mosquera is the NATO senior legal advisor for NATO’s Allied Command Operations around the world. He works in partnership with the senior legal advisors of the NATO International Staff, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, and NATO agencies, providing altogether and with their own distinct legal position, and juridical support to NATO bodies’ leadership and decision-makers.
He joined NATO in the year 2000 as a civilian and he is the NATO Supreme Commander’s Legal Advisor (Director of the ACO/SHAPE Office of Legal Affairs) since 2014. He served in the Spanish Armed Forces in two cavalry regiments as secretario de causas (case officer/paralegal) and tank commander until 1991. He is a reserve officer at the Spanish La Legion elite unit.
From 1991 to 1999 he worked at the Spanish CHOD as a permanent member of the Spanish inter-ministerial delegation before the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Geneva. In 1994 he deployed in Bosnia i Herzegovina. In BiH, he performed press information duties for General Rose. He was involved in the negotiation of anti-sniping agreements and the exchange of prisoners and corpses in the area of Sarajevo. In the years 1997 and 1998, he was assigned, as a counter-intelligence officer for the US-led Allied Military Intelligence Battalion (ACCI-trained) to the identification and collection of evidence of war crimes committed between 1991-1995, as well as persons indicted of war crimes (PIFWC) to support the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He has been involved in rule of law matters since 2000 in the Balkans and, on this matter and pro bono, in support of his bar association in the Middle East. He has developed SHAPE’s concept of strategic legal information (legal intelligence) and operations (legal vigilance) - LEGIO. He has directed and still does multimillion cases in several courts relating to NATO operations in the Balkans, and Afghanistan, as well as cases relating to peace permanent headquarters’ daily operations on matters arising out of the implementation of Host Nation support matters. He has been a dual-hatted legal advisor for the NATO Airborne Early Warning (NAEW) Commander and for the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ), as well as a judge at the EU SatCen Appeals Board before the Board was absorbed by the European Court of Justice.
Mr Munoz Mosquera is an academic and author of numerous books, book chapters, and academic articles relating to public international law, international institutional law, and international relations (security studies). He has lectured at the Royal Academy of Law and Jurisprudence in Madrid. He is a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and the USA. He held a fellowship at the Marine Corps University (2021-2023) and Reichman University (2022). Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Center for International Law and Governance) and a member of the Association of American Law Schools. He lectures regularly at the USMA-West Point and the National Defence University. He is a member of the Society of the Military Law and Law of War, the Madrid Bar Association and he is also a CCB European Lawyer.
He holds an Honor Graduate for his academic achievement at the Keesler Technical Centre, USA (Law and Electromagnetic Spectrum). He holds the Madrid Bar Award for his work on Legal Resilience. Mr Munoz Mosquera has been awarded fifteen decorations, among them: the NATO Meritorious Medal, NATO Legal Long Service, and the French Republic Medal of the Ex-Yugoslavie. He has been knighted twice as Caballero de la Orden de San Hermenegildo, and Caballero de la Imperial Orden de Carlos V.
Mr Munoz Mosquera is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts) and from the NATO Defense College (GFOAC). PhD from Leiden University - 2024.
Other: He is a Judo black belt and since 2020, and he regularly officiates religious services for the 1951-established Shomrei Shalom community at SHAPE International Chapel. He has two children: Abraham and Rebeca
Andre’s’ motto. The sage Tarfon once said: “You are not required to finish your work, yet neither are you permitted to desist from it.”
Updated June 2024
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