AESIA appoints constitutional law senior lecturer Mario Hernández Ramos deputy director-general for AI Certification and Trend Evaluation

The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) has filled one of its deputy directorates-general. The Resolution of 28 October 2026, of the Presidency of its Governing Council, published in the BOE of Monday 2 November 2026, has resolved the open competition call issued by Resolution of 12 September 2026 and has awarded the post of deputy director-general for Certification, Trend Evaluation, Coordination and Training in Artificial Intelligence (a level 30 post based in A Coruña, the agency's headquarters) to Mario Hernández Ramos, a civil servant of the Corps of University Senior Lecturers assigned to the Complutense University of Madrid.

The appointment follows the channel provided for professional public managers: once compliance with article 4.3 of Order TDF/379/2024, of 26 April (which regulates the specificities of the procedures for filling management posts within the framework of Royal Decree-Law 6/2023) and the fulfilment of the call's requirements and the candidate's suitability for the post had been established, the resolution was adopted in view of the proposal of the agency's Director and the Governing Council's agreement of 22 October 2026, under article 16.1.f) of Royal Decree 729/2023, of 22 August, approving AESIA's Statute. The taking up of office will be governed by articles 48 and 57 of Royal Decree 364/1995, the General Regulation on Entry and Provision of Posts, and against the resolution (which ends the administrative channel) an optional application for reversal may be lodged within one month or an administrative appeal within two months before the High Court of Justice of Galicia, territorially competent because of the agency's A Coruña headquarters. The resolution bears the signature of the Governing Council's president, María González Veracruz.

An open competition procedure in due form

The published resolution allows the complete itinerary of the procedure to be reconstructed, an orderly example of how professional public management posts are filled today. The call was announced by Resolution of 12 September 2026, of the agency's Director, published in the BOE of 21 September. Two things have been established on it: compliance with article 4.3 of Order TDF/379/2024, of 26 April, which regulates the specificities of the procedures for filling professional public management posts and the tools for their management, within the framework of Royal Decree-Law 6/2023; and the selected candidate's fulfilment of the requirements and specifications demanded in the call, as well as his suitability for the performance of the post. With the Director's proposal on the table, the Governing Council agreed the award at its session of 22 October 2026, under article 16.1.f) of the agency's Statute, and the Council's Presidency formalised it by resolution of 28 October. The chain (public call, assessment of requirements, proposal by the Director, agreement of the collegiate body and resolution of its Presidency) records a competitive and documented procedure, not a discretionary appointment without oversight.

The management structure now completed

AESIA's Statute, approved by Royal Decree 729/2023, structures the agency around its Governing Council (whose Presidency is held by María González Veracruz, the resolution's signatory), its Director and the deputy directorates-general that execute the operational functions. The filling by open competition of this deputy directorate-general, with post code 5799611, follows the specific channel the legal system reserves for the professional public manager: a system designed to bring qualified profiles into the Administration, in this case a serving university academic, through a public call. The appointee is listed with the NRP of the Corps of University Senior Lecturers, subgroup A1, and his post of origin (level 27 at the Complutense University) is linked to the administrative situation provided for in the annex.

A constitutional scholar specialised in technology and fundamental rights

According to the note published by the Complutense University Faculty of Law on 3 November 2026, Hernández Ramos is a senior lecturer in Constitutional Law and a "recognised specialist in Constitutional Law, new technologies and fundamental rights", a profile the faculty itself links to the responsibility he assumes "in an institution key to the development, supervision and governance of artificial intelligence in Spain". His academic background (he moves from a level 27 post at UCM to a level 30 management post) fits the line of bringing first-rate legal profiles into the supervision of artificial intelligence, a field in which fundamental rights questions are the core of the European regulation.

What the deputy directorate he assumes supervises

The post's name describes its perimeter: certification, trend evaluation, coordination and training in artificial intelligence. These are four of the operational pillars with which AESIA exercises its mission of supervising the development and use of AI systems in Spain, at a time when the progressive deployment of the European Artificial Intelligence Regulation demands real technical and training capacity from national supervisory authorities. The deputy directorate-general is integrated into the agency's management structure, below its director, and its holder will have to articulate both the system certification work and the observation of technological trends and the coordination and training programmes.

AESIA, the centrepiece of Spanish AI governance

The agency, headquartered in A Coruña, is governed by the Statute approved by Royal Decree 729/2023 and has consolidated itself as the Spanish institutional reference in the supervision of artificial intelligence. This appointment comes in a particularly dense year for AI regulation in Spain and Europe, marked by the application calendar of the European Regulation (whose fit with the digital simplification package known as the AI Omnibus law firms are following closely), by the international framework of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and by the national governance debate, following the lapse of the draft AI governance law. Private operators are moving too: the AEPD itself has issued guidance on the use of generative AI in law firms.

For the legal sector, the arrival of an academic constitutional scholar at the deputy directorate for certification and evaluation is a signal of the agency's orientation towards fundamental rights profiles, consistent with the risk-based approach of the European legislation, which places the threshold of the most demanding obligations precisely on those rights.

Next steps

With the award closed, the file follows the ordinary channels of the civil servant changing posts: the taking up of office will be governed by article 48 of Royal Decree 364/1995, to which its article 57 refers, and the new deputy director-general must take up his post in A Coruña within the deadlines of that regulation. The resolution brings the administrative channel to an end, and it may be challenged either by an application for reversal within one month or directly through an administrative appeal within two months before the High Court of Justice of Galicia.

Frequently asked questions

What post will Mario Hernández Ramos hold at AESIA?

Deputy director-general for Certification, Trend Evaluation, Coordination and Training in Artificial Intelligence, a level 30 post based in A Coruña, awarded by open competition.

What is the new deputy director-general's profile?

He is a civil servant of the Corps of University Senior Lecturers, assigned to the Complutense University of Madrid, a specialist in Constitutional Law, new technologies and fundamental rights, according to UCM itself.

Where is AESIA headquartered?

In A Coruña; that is why the administrative appeal against the appointment resolution falls to the High Court of Justice of Galicia.

Sources

• Resolution of 28 October 2026, of the Presidency of AESIA's Governing Council (BOE-A-2026-22898)
• Note from the UCM Faculty of Law on the appointment