María de Miguel de Santos joined the Higher Body of Information Technology and Systems of the State Administration in 2010. Maria has occupied a number of different posts over the course of her career as a civil servant, such as Cabinet Department Coordinator and Technical Advisor on Cybersecurity at the Ministry of Digital Progress. She is currently Technical Coordinator at the Spanish National Security Department.

She previously worked in the telecommunications sector for over 10 years in multinational organisations and also worked as a part-time associate professor in IT security. She is a telecommunications engineer (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies with study modules and research on Cryptography and Network Security.