Iván Redondo
Iván Redondo Bacaicoa is a Spanish political advisor serving as Moncloa Chief of Staff since 2018.Biography
Born in 1981 in San Sebastián, he obtained a degree and Humanities and Communication at the University of Deusto.
He worked as advisor for Xavier García Albiol during the campaign of the People's Party politician for the 2011 Badalona municipal election, after which García Albiol became Mayor of Badalona. Appointed in 2012 as Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Junta de Extremadura, serving as advisor to José Antonio Monago, also a PP politician. He also worked in the Basque Country as advisor of PP's Antonio Basagoiti.
He began working with Pedro Sánchez during the preparation of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party primary election in 2017.
He is credited with the condition of "ideologist" of the 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy. Following the success of the later and the subsequent investiture of Pedro Sánchez as new Prime Minister, he was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Cabinet Office of the Presidency of the Government through a Royal Decree issued on 8 June and published in the BOE a day later. He was sworn in on 11 June.
