Raquel Jorge

Director for European Affairs and Brussels Office Adigital, the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy

Raquel Jorge is Director for European Affairs and Director of the Brussels Office at Adigital, the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at CEPS think tank (Center for European Policy Studies) Elcano Royal Institute, and a member of the Advisory Council at CDTI, the Spanish public agency responsible for the promotion of technological innovation and financing.

Raquel Jorge’s professional experience combines policy research and advisory with stakeholders’ engagement and negotiations. She has been Project Lead in the European Union’s project on the international dimension of Internet governance in a project jointly funded by the European External Action Service and DG CONNECT. In the past, she has worked as Technical Assistance Advisor in the consultation and negotiation phase of the then-prepared National Strategy on Technology and Global Order at Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has also worked as an independent expert consultant for the European Commission, Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, the Business Ready 2025 report at the World Bank Group, and has developed projects on humanitarian technologies at a UK-based consultancy firm, Development Initiatives Ltd.

As a former Fulbright Fellow granted by the U.S. State Department, she holds a Master’s in Security Policy, specialized in technology policy, from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University (Washington, DC). Her background is on Political Science and Public Administration, and Sociology, from the University of Valencia (Spain) and Université Paris X Ouest Nanterre-La Défense in Paris (France).

She is part of the Younger Generation Leaders Network at the European Leadership Network, and has been named as one of Emerging Young Leaders across Europe in the “35 Under 35” List from Santander Bank-CIDOB.

She is fluent in English and French, and a pre-intermediate level of Mandarin Chinese.