María José Aparicio Sanchiz

Position: 
Deputy Director General of Training and Road Safety Education. General Direction of Traffic

Born in Madrid, into a family linked to road safety, graduated in Law from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE).

After a few years working as a legal advisor in companies in the insurance world, she prepared the opposition to the State Administration, specifically to the Higher Scale of traffic technicians, a body to which she has belonged since 2008.

Since then, with the exception of two years in which I worked at the Ministry of Justice, I have developed my professional career at the DGT and always in the area of DRIVERS. First in the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Madrid and since 2017 in the Subdirectorate of Training and road education, 3 years as Deputy Assistant Director responsible for driver training including access to the different permits and for a year and a half as Deputy Director General of training and road safety education, expanding my skills with education for safe mobility.