Ms Ángeles Albert de León is a civil servant in the Optional Corps of Museum Curators, at the Ministry of Culture and Sport. She is currently director general of cultural heritage and fine arts. She has been director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Culture and of the Tabacalera Centro de Producción y de Residencias Artísticas in 2024. She was director of the Spanish Academy in Rome from September 2015 to January 2024. From 2012 to 2015 she was head of the Support Unit of the Directorate for Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. She also was director general of fine arts and cultural assets at the Ministry of Culture from July 2009 to 30 December 2011. From 2007 to July 2009, she was deputy assistant director of cooperation and cultural promotion abroad of AECID. She was head of the Unit of the Network of Cultural Centres Abroad of the Directorate General for Cultural and Scientific Relations of AECID in 2009 and previously director of the Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico from its creation in 2002 to 2007 (AECID-Embassy of Spain in Mexico), falling under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Before that, she was curator of the Technical Cabinet of Museums of the Subdirectorate General of State Museums of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport from 1998 to 2002.

Ms Ángeles Albert de León replaced Mr Isaac Sastre de Diego.