Mazón appoints Lieutenant General Francisco José Gan Pampols vice president for Economic and Social Recovery

Army Lieutenant General Francisco José Gan Pampols will assume the vice presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana for Economic and Social Recovery.

President Carlos Mazón creates this vice presidency to centralize all the actions of the Consell aimed at the recovery and economic and social normalization of the province of Valencia and especially in the municipalities affected by the flood of October 29.

The new vice president will have among his duties the design of a recovery plan and the coordination of the reconstruction work in the affected areas, which is why he will also be responsible for presiding over the Interdepartmental Commission in charge of organizing and coordinating all the departments of the Consell. oriented to the reconstruction process of the affected regions.

Another of the functions that Francisco José Gan Pampols will assume will be the development of a protection plan to face possible natural disasters that pose risks to the population. To do this, the Generalitat will undertake a detailed analysis of the infrastructure related to prevention.

Francisco José Gan Pampols entered the General Military Academy (Zaragoza) in 1975 and during his career he rose through the ranks to lieutenant general in 2016. He is currently retired due to having reached the regulatory age. He was born in Figueres in 1958.

Among his many responsibilities in the military field, his appointment in 2009 as director of the General Military Academy stands out, a position he held until March 2013. In March 2013 he was appointed advisor to the second chief of the Army General Staff, remaining in this position until May of that year. In May 2013, he was appointed director of the Armed Forces Intelligence Center and in December 2016 he was promoted to lieutenant general, remaining in the position until May 2017, when he was named chief general of the High Availability Land Headquarters. .

Gan Pampols has numerous operations and peacekeeping missions in different countries. In fact, in 1995, he participated as head of operations of the AGT ‘Aragón’ in the United Nations Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1996 he was head of operations as a NATO member in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the years 2000-2001 he joined as chief of the Operational Staff of the Multinational Brigade West in Kosovo and in 2007 he was appointed head of the Provincial Reconstruction team in Quala e Naw (Afghanistan).

Lieutenant General Gan Pampols has a degree in Political Science and Sociology from UNED, and an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Valencia; He is also a member of the Cívico de Opinión Circle.

In addition, he is in possession of various civil and military decorations; These include the Grand Cross of Military Merit, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard and the Royal and Military Order of San Hermenegildo, as well as ten other white crosses for military merit.