Eva Alcón Soler (born 21 January 1963 Castelló de la Plana) is a Spanish academic, and politician. She is rector of Jaume I University.
She is one of the first female university rectors in the country, and since 2023, the president of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities.
Biography
She is a professor of English philology in the Department of English Studies at Jaume I University, which she joined in 1993, she is director of the research group "Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of the English Language" (LAELA). Her main research topics focus on English language acquisition. In her field of research, she published numerous scientific articles in international journals.
During her academic career, she was successively vice-dean of English philology (1999-2001), vice-rector of academic organization (2001-2006) and vice-rector of international cooperation (2006-2010).
In 2015, she was a candidate of the Valencian Socialist Party-PSOE (PSPV-PSOE) for the presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana. She was elected a deputy to the Valencian Parliament in 2015, before resigning in 2017 to devote herself to university.
In 2018, she was appointed rector of Jaume I University, becoming the first woman to hold this position in the history of this university.
Since March 2023, she has been president of the Xarxa Vives d’universitats. Since June 2023, she has also chaired the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities.