Santiago Muñoz Machado

Santiago Muñoz Machado (born 10 January 1949) is a Spanish jurist and academic, director of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language since 10 January 2019. As a jurist, he specialized in administrative and constitutional rights. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and editor of the Diccionario del español jurídico (Dictionary of Spanish Judiciary) and the Diccionario panhispánico del español jurídico (Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Spanish Judiciary).

Life and career He has also been the a member of the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State since 1973. When the body was named the Civil Administration, he was President of the Government from 1973 to 1980.

He is a professor of the Complutense University of Madrid, where he has professor of Administrative Rights since 1994. He became a professor at the University of Valencia in 1980, and two years later, professor of the same field in the University of Alcalá de Henares.