Madrid, September 6, 2024.- The new head of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, has received the portfolio of hands of his predecessor, José Luis Escrivá, on the same day that the Official State Gazette has collected his appointment.
At the event, López stressed the importance of the ministry “for the country, for the President of the Government and for the political project he has set in motion”: “Spain today has a government that is aware of the importance of digital transformation, of modernizing the public service, of promoting Artificial Intelligence and of economically transforming the country”, he said, and stressed that the policies implemented in recent years have made “Spain a world leader” in these areas. The minister also said that “without the public employees it would not be possible to have a modern and advanced country and a dynamic economy” and in this regard he encouraged the workers of the department to “help me and work with me in the challenges ahead of the ministry”.
Escrivá, for his part, thanked the teams of the ministry and the entities dependent on it for their work, and especially the officials, of whom he praised his “extraordinary sense of public service”, and concluded that “the important challenges that the ministry has to face remain in magnificent hands” with López.
CV Óscar López Águeda
He was born in Madrid, in 1973. Bachelor of Political Science with the dual specialty of Public Administration and International Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Since July 2021 he has been director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government. Between 2018 and 2021 he was president and CEO of Paradores.
Appointed in 2015 as a senator representing the Cortes de Castilla y León, he remained in office until 2018. In the Lower House he was spokesman for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and spokesman for the Socialist parliamentary group.
Between 2012 and 2014 he was in charge of the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE. He has also been Secretary General of the PSOE of Castilla y León (2008); candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León (2010) and spokesman of the socialist group in the Cortes de Castilla y León until 2015.
He was elected deputy by the PSOE in 2004 and was a member of Congress until 2011. He served as spokesman for the RTVE Control Committee. In those years he was the speaker of laws such as the RTVE corporation, the transition to DTT or the General Audiovisual Law.
He has taught public communication and debate techniques at the Faculty of Law of the University of Navarra and at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He is the author of the book “Del 15M al Procés” published by Planeta through its label Ediciones Deusto. He also founded and managed a small web design company called Ideorama.
He has been a political analyst and lecturer in various radio and television programs (TVE, Telecinco, La Sexta, Antena 3, Cuatro, RNE, Canal SER, Punto Radio).