She began her career as the director of programmes in the Subdirectorate General for Emigration in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992 before going on to work at the Diplomatic Information Office [es] from 1994 to 1996.
On 19 July 1962, Fuertes Ferragut was born in Valencia, Spain and obtained a law degree before entering the Spanish Diplomatic Service in 1992.
[3] That same year, Fuertes Ferragut was appointed to serve as the director of programmes in the Subdirectorate General for Emigration in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[4] She held a variety of different positions in the Diplomatic Information Office [es] from 1994 to 1996 and then served as the Second Head of the Spanish Embassies in Beirut (Lebanon), Jakarta (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand) and Guatemala between 1996 and 2003.
[4][3] On the afternoon of 2 April 2012, she was spending a short holiday in Namibia when she was killed in a traffic accident in which her car overturned and rolled multiple times close to the coastal town of Walvis Bay.