General Director of Planning, Coordination and Knowledge Transfer

With a degree in Environmental Sciences and a master’s degree in Energy Law, Rivera belongs to the Superior Corps of Civil Administrators of the State. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in International Relations and spent the first four years of his work in France, in the Council of Europe, in the field of cooperation and human rights and in the consulting sector.

Since January 2020, she has been director of the Cabinet of the General Secretariat of Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, counselor of the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI) and president of the Permanent Commission of the Spanish Space Agency.

She also worked between August 2021 and September 2022 for the European Commission as a leading national expert at the European Environment Agency, in monitoring climate change with data and earth observation products, as well as in the development of indicators and data for decision making.

She previously served as an advisory member in the Cabinet of the Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the European Environment Agency and coordinator of the Earth Observation Programme Users Forum, Copernicus for six years. Until becoming part of the General Administration of the State, he worked in the Council of Europe.