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María González Veracruz
Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service of Spain, Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence
Speaker Bio
Born in July 1979 in Murcia, she holds a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Murcia. She completed a Licentiate Degree in Research with a thesis, several academic publications, a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Genetics, and doctoral coursework, following four years of research in Molecular Genetics between the University of Leipzig (Germany) and the University of Murcia. Her vocation has always been oriented towards teaching, and she became a tenured secondary school teacher in the Region of Murcia, specializing in Physics and Chemistry.
From a young age, she has been involved in social movements, student organizations, and NGOs, as well as in political activity through the Socialist Youth. In May 2007, she was elected as a regional member of parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) in the Region of Murcia. In 2011, she was elected as a national member of parliament representing Murcia, a position she held until 2019, working on issues such as science and new technologies, among others. She also contributed to these areas between 2008 and 2016 through various Federal Executive Committees of the PSOE.
After several years dedicated to her teaching profession, in October 2022 she joined the team of Vice President Nadia Calviño at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation as Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure. She continued in this role following the creation in 2023 of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, led by José Luis Escrivá. During this term, amid a significant increase in public investment in digitalization, she promoted the creation of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), a public business entity which she chaired.
In September 2024, she was appointed Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence under Minister Óscar López, a role that also makes her President of the public entity Red.es.