Aleida Alcaide García assumed the position of Director General of Artificial Intelligence at the
Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service. She leads Spain's representation on AIrelated
matters and is responsible for proposing and implementing public policies in Spain
related to AI and other digital technologies, as quantum technologies. Her responsibilities
encompass the AI promotion adoption in productive sectors and public administrations, the
innovative research on AI and other digital technologies, the development and coordination of
regulations, the protection of rights in this field, as well as creating spaces for public debate on
the risks and benefits of these technologies. She is also a board member of the Spanish Agency
for the Supervision of AI.

In the public sector, she held roles such as Chief of Cabinet at the State Secretariat for
Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, was a board member of different public entities as
related to digitalization, innovation and cybersecurity and served as Deputy Director-General for
Coordination of European Funds at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation,
overseeing the execution of funds allocated to digitalization under the Recovery,
Transformation, and Resilience Plan.

Aleida holds the degree of Telecommunications Engineer from the Valladolid University, she
completed the Leadership Program for Public Management at IESE Business School, and she is
member of the Superior Body of Information Systems and Technologies and the Computer
Management of the General State Administration.