Raquel Jorge is the Director for European Affairs and the Brussels Office at Adigital, the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy, and the inaugural Chair of the governance body Executive Policy Advisory Committee at DIGITALEUROPE, Europe’s leading trade association representing the digital technology industry. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Investments and Innovation at DIGITALEUROPE.

She is engaged in independent policy analysis in European think tanks. As Associate Research Fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, leading the portfolio on economic security and technology diplomacy; and at Elcano Royal Institute, where she coordinated for almost four years the Working Group on Technological Transformations.

She has worked as Project Lead in a Services Contract with DG CONNECT (European Commission) and the European External Action Service to position the EU in international Internet governance forums. She has also worked with a technical assistance in the elaboration of the National Strategy for Technology and Global Order in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Government of Spain). She has developed digital public policy projects at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University), and at a UK consultancy firm with foresight and data evaluation methodologies for governments and international institutions. She has been an independent expert for the European Commission, project evaluation at the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as World Bank for the “Business Ready 2025” report.

As a Fulbright Scholar granted by the U.S. Department of State, she holds a Master’s degree in Security Policy, with a specialization in science and technology policy, from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (Washington, DC). She also holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and a double degree in Sociology and Political Science and Public Administration from University of Valencia (Spain) and Université Paris X (Paris, France).

She holds Advisory Board roles, being a member of the Advisory Board of CDTI (2024-2027), part of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in the Spanish Public Administration (independent and unpaid capacity); member of “Los 100” Network at COTEC Foundation; and member of the Advisory Committee at Science Media Centre (SMC) Spain. She is a member of the Younger Generation Leaders Network of the European Leadership Network, and of the “35 Under 35” list by Santander Bank-CIDOB.