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Carmen Páez Soria

Carmen Páez Soria

Graduate in Law and Business Administration and Management (E3 programme) from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), member of the Higher Corps of Civil Administrators of the Stat since 2012 and Undersecretary of State for Culture since 27 February 2024.

She began her career in the public sector at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, where she was Deputy Assistant Director of Intellectual Property and advisor to the entities managing intellectual property rights. In 2016, she took up the post of Deputy Assistant Director for International Relations and Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, and subsequently became Head of the Support Unit of the Directorate General for International Relations of the same Ministry. In 2019, she returned to the Ministry of Culture and Sport, where she held the positions of Deputy Director General for Cooperation and International Promotion of Culture and Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Cultural Industries until October 2022, when she was appointed Secretary General of the EOI Foundation, F.S.P. (School of Industrial Organisation) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.

She held the post of Director General for Cultural Industries, Intellectual Property and Cooperation until her appointment as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Culture on 27 February 2024.

She has given courses and lectures on intellectual property, international relations and administrative law at various institutions, including the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP). She was awarded the White Cross of the Order of Police Merit in 2018.

Fabián Barrera