Following her dismissal as sub-delegate of the Government in the Community of Madrid, a position she held since December 2023, the Council of Ministers has approved the Royal Decree appointing Pilar Trinidad Núñez as the new government delegate for Spain in the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The appointment will take effect tomorrow upon publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Trinidad Núñez succeeds Francisco Martín Aguirre as head of the Government Delegation in Madrid, where she served as sub-delegate since December 2023.
She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Extremadura and is an associate professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. She also served as the university's general secretary from 16 April 2021 until her recent appointment.
Her academic career includes guest professorships at the University of New Mexico (USA) in 2015 and 2017, and at the University of the Republic in Uruguay from 2017 to 2022. Additionally, she has taught at various universities across Ibero-America, including the University of Havana, the University of Medellín (Colombia), Flacso (Ecuador), and the General San Martín University (Argentina).
In terms of public administration experience, she has worked as a technical advisor and legal counsel in the International Legal Advisory Office of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation from 2005 to 2009. She also held similar roles at the Directorate General for International Legal Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice between 2018 and 2019.
