Santiago Muñoz Machado

Santiago Muñoz Machado
Muñoz addressing the RAE in 2013
Born10 January 1949 (1949-01-10) (age 76)
NationalitySpanish
Seat r of the Real Academia Española
Assumed office
26 May 2013
Preceded byMingote
Director of the Real Academia Española
Assumed office
10 January 2019
Preceded byDarío Villanueva

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).