Juan Ignacio del Valle

NATO AI Policy Officer, contributing to the development of AI governance policies in the military domain. His interdisciplinary background, spanning science, engineering and philosophy, enables him to combine technical judgement with a solid understanding of the relevant ethical frameworks. Over a career of more than twenty years, he has worked in programme management, R&D, standardisation and policy development in both the public and private sectors. He led the Ground Segment Unit for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) at Airbus Defence and Space, where he headed the design and development of control stations for several military drones. He later served as UAS Project Officer at the European Defence Agency (EDA). In parallel with his engineering career, he has explored the ethical dimensions of technology in depth. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Granada, with research focused on the intersection between civil and military AI and human values.