Paz Esteban López
Paz Esteban López | |
|---|---|
| Director of the National Intelligence Centre | |
| In office February 5, 2020 – May 11, 2022 Acting: July 6, 2019 – February 5, 2020 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| President | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Félix Sanz Roldán |
| Succeeded by | Esperanza Casteleiro |
| Secretary-General of the National Intelligence Center | |
| In office June 13, 2017 – February 5, 2020 | |
| Director | Félix Sanz Roldán |
| Preceded by | Beatriz Méndez de Vigo |
| Succeeded by | Arturo Relanzón Sánchez-Gabriel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1958 Madrid, Spain |
| Education | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Paz Esteban López (born 1958) is a Spanish intelligence officer. She served as Director of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) from 2020 to 2022. She was the first woman to hold the post and was previously the Secretary-General of the agency from 2017 to 2019, under Félix Sanz Roldán. In 2022, she was removed from her position as CNI director following revelations, which came to be known as CatalanGate, where various national and regional politicians had been targeted by phone tapping through Pegasus spyware.