Biography

Raquel Jorge works as Project Lead at the Global Initiative on the Future of the Internet (GIFI). GIFI is the EU-funded project established to promote the EU’s technology diplomacy efforts through the Declaration for the Future of the Internet (DFI) and support the implementation of its principles in a multi-stakeholder and rights-based approach. She works on policy support, multistakeholder engagement, and outreach and communication.
Jorge specializes in the international agenda of technology policy and governance. She complements this activity with an affiliation to Elcano Royal Institute think tank, based in Brussels and Madrid. She has worked as an independent expert consultant for the European Commission, provided trainings to policy officers in multilateral organizations, and supported digital public policy projects at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She also worked as a Technical Advisor in the planning of the then National Strategy on Technology and Global Order at Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at Development Initiatives Ltd., a consultancy firm based in the United Kingdom.
As a former Fulbright Fellow granted by the U.S. Department of State, she holds a Master’s in Security Policy, specialised in Science and Technology Policy, at George Washington University (Washington, DC). She also has a Master’s in International Relations and African Studies from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and a Double Bachelor’s in Sociology and Political Science and Public Administration spent at the University of Valencia and Université Paris X.