Delegates Agenda

Raquel Jorge is Director for European Affairs and Director of the Brussels Office at Adigital, the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy. As part of DigitalEurope, the European leading trade association on the digital industry sector, she is the Chair of the inaugural Executive Committee for Policy Advisory. She is an Associate Research Fellow at CEPS, leading the portfolios on technology diplomacy and the international angle of economic security. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at Elcano Royal Institute, where she led the Working Group on Technology Policy for more than four years. She is member of the Advisory Council at CDTI, the Spanish Business Public Entity responsible for the promotion of technological innovation and financing, on an unpaid, independent basis (2024-2027), part of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.

Raquel Jorge’s professional experience combines policy research and advisory with stakeholders’ engagement and negotiations in the public sector, think tanks and industry associations.

She has been Project Lead in the European Union’s project on the international dimension of Internet governance at the European University Institute (EUI), a project jointly funded by the European External Action Service and DG CONNECT (European Commission). 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 mapping national AI strategies and has provided trainings to EU diplomats on technology diplomacy. Internationally, she has supported digital public policy projects at the Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, has worked as independent expert for 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., for governments and international institutions.

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. Also, she has been selected as 2026 European Fellow in the International Strategy Forum (ISF) Fellowship, which yearly selects 25 global emerging leaders in global affairs and technology policy.

A Spanish national, Raquel Jorge is fluent in English and French, and has a pre-intermediate level of Mandarin Chinese.