Raquel Jorge-Ricart
Fulbright Fellow
Elliott School of International Affairs and member of the YGLN
Raquel Jorge-Ricart is a Fulbright Fellow based in Washington, DC (Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU), where she is specializing in technology and digital policy, and its implications on strategic risk management as well as security and foreign policy. Raquel has worked on policymaking projects at the Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and at the GWU’s Institute for Science and Technology Policy, on cybersecurity and 5G issues related to trade and industry, cities, defense and security, and fundamental rights.
Raquel is a member of the Spanish Observatory on the Social and Ethical Impact of Artificial Intelligence, and she collaborates with the think tank Elcano Royal Institute. Raquel earned a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Madrid, and a double bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Valencia.
Recent Publications
The EU’s Approach to 5G and the Reshaping of Transatlantic Relations
Lagging in the global technological race and caught between a U.S.-China rivalry, the European Union has been working to develop its own capacities in a number of key emerging technologies such as cybersecurity, AI, quantum computing, and, not least of all, 5G. This next-generation wireless standard will be one of the pillars of the future digital economy, but it faces fraught geopolitical challenges that deserve a broadly coordinated policy.
