Secretary
Carmen acts as secretary to the management of the Budget Analysis Division, providing administrative support to all its members. Her main responsibilities include the management and organisation of physical and digital archives; the preparation of meetings, documentation and publications; receiving visitors and carrying out protocol-related tasks; answering and handling telephone calls; as well as coordinating travel and processing expense claims. In addition, she provides administrative support, in her capacity as secretary, to the members of the President’s Office.
She joined the civil service in 1989 as a contract staff member. In 2006, she became a member of the General Auxiliary Corps of the General State Administration and, since 2022, has been a member of the General Administrative Corps. She spent her professional career in the Sub-Directorate-General for Management at the Institute for Defence Housing and Infrastructure (INVIED) until 2017, when she joined the Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), first as secretary to the Department for Sub-Saharan Africa and subsequently as deputy head of the director’s secretariat.