The Iberarchivos cooperation programme congratulates Esther Cruces, the new director of the Archivo General de Indias, in Seville, Spain, according to information published on Friday in the Official State Gazette.
Cruces holds a PhD in History from the University of Malaga and has been a career civil servant in the Faculty of Archivists and Librarians since 1983.
She has previously worked as Director of the Provincial Historical Archive of Cordoba, Director of the General Archive of Andalusia and Director of the Provincial Historical Archive of Malaga. She has been Associate Professor of Archival Science at the UMA and President of the Section of Architectural Archives of the International Council on Archives. It is important to mention that she is an expert in the prestigious institution that she will now direct as she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the General Archive of the Indies. 
From the Iberarchivos programme we are pleased to congratulate her on this new position, which we are sure she will carry out in an extraordinary way, like all her work, which has always been characterised by her great professionalism and approachability.