Santiago Muñoz Machado

Santiago Muñoz Machado
Muñoz addressing the RAE in 2013
Born10 January 1949 (1949-01-10) (age 77)
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
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with deprecated parameter "nationality". It should be removed.

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).