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Spanish politician, President's Chief of Staff

His excellencyDiego Rubio Rodríguez
President's Chief of Staff and First Secretary of State
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 September 2024
MonarchFelipe VI
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byÓscar López Águeda
Secretary-General of Public Policy and European Affairs
In office
29 November 2023 – 11 September 2024
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Director of Spain's National Office for Foresight and Strategy
In office
5 February 2020 – 29 November 2023
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Personal details
BornCáceres, Spain
Political partyIndependent
EducationPhD
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Columbia University
École normale supérieure
Autonomous University of Barcelona

Diego Rubio is a Spanish scholar and policy maker, currently serving as the Spanish President's Chief of Staff and first Secretary of State of the Government of Spain. Prior to that, he was Secretary-General of Public Policy, European Affairs, and Strategic Foresight.

Career

Rubio was born in Cáceres, a mid-size city of Western Spain, in 1986. He graduated in History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with the best academic record of the country, for which he obtained the National Award for Academic Excellence, the most prestigious recognition in higher-education granted by the Spanish State. He then obtained a master's degree from the École Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, and a PhD from the University of Oxford. He also studied at Sorbonne University and Columbia University as visiting scholar.

Between 2015 and 2017, Rubio was a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Oxford. From 2017 to 2020, he was a professor of Applied History and Government at IE University, where he founded and directed the Center for Governance of Change, one of Europe's leading institutions in technological foresight according to Public. During this period, he also advised several international organizations, including the United Nations, the European Commission, and the Ibero-American General Secretariat.

In 2020, President Pedro Sánchez appointed him Director of Spain's National Office for Foresight and Strategy with the mandate of "analyzing future trends and preparing the country to face them." In such capacity, Rubio lead the first long-term national strategy of Spain 2050 and coordinated the design of several policies, including the national COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy.

In 2023, Rubio was promoted to the rank of Secretary-General of Public Policy, European Affairs and Strategic Foresight, responsible for coordinating the policy work of all ministries and for the diplomatic relation with all European governments and EU institutions. In this role, he was one of the main architects of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and Spain's lead negotiator for the second von der Leyen Commission. He also fostered the creation of Spain's National Scientific Advisory Office, an agency inspired in the UK's Government Office for Science.

In 2024, Pedro Sánchez appointed Rubio his Chief of Staff and first Secretary of State praising "his integrity, technical rigour and cross-cutting vision." Rubio undertook a deep reform of La Moncloa, the Presidential Office, creating new General-Directorates and incorporating numerous scholars of his generation.

Research and Outreach

Rubio's work focuses on applied history, theory of change, foresight and anticipatory governance. His research aims to understand how societies change over time, paying special attention to issues such as causality and contingency, path dependencies, megatrends, black swans, and the effects of technological innovation and geopolitical transformations. His ideas have been featured in several media outlets, including the BBC, El País, La Repubblica, and TVE.

In 2019, Rubio wrote and hosted A History of the Future, a four-episodes documentary series for the History Channel in which he explores the future of work, democracy, globalization, and climate, along with 18 leading academics, including Timothy Snyder (Yale), Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT), Naomi Oreskes (Harvard), Graham Allison (Harvard), Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford),  Steven Levitsky (Harvard), Rana Mitter (Oxford), and César Hidalgo (MIT).

References

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  2. Caballero, Daniel Sánchez. "España les da el Premio Nacional Fin de Carrera y el extranjero los ficha". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-08.
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  6. "El Consejo de Ministros aprueba el nombramiento de Iván Redondo como director del Gabinete de la Presidencia". www.lamoncloa.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-12.
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  11. "Pedro Sánchez announces the new composition of the Government, which starts the year "with new ideas, the best teams and optimistic about the present and the future of Spain"". www.lamoncloa.gob.es. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
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  14. Retina, El País (17 April 2018). "No es la tecnología, sino su gobernanza, lo que salvará la democracia". EL PAÍS RETINA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  15. "El 65% de los empleos que ocuparán nuestros niños aún no se ha 'inventado'". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 16 October 2017. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  16. "La Spagna dei miracoli". la Repubblica (in Italian). 4 May 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
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  18. "«Una historia del futuro», viaje «optimista» al pasado para entender el presente". abc (in Spanish). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
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