Hannia Vega is the current President of the Council of the Superintendency of Telecommunications (SUTEL) in Costa Rica. She has studies in political science and a Public Administration Master from the University of Costa Rica.

She has been in several public positions, including the first Vice Ministry of Telecommunications of Costa Rica in the period 2008 to 2012 and the Vice Ministry of National Planning and Economical Policy between 2006 and 2008. She has also been a parliamentary adviser in the periods from 1994 to 2006 and 2012 to 2016, where she developed the "Open Parliament" project.

She has experience as a professor at the University of Costa Rica in the Schools of Public Administration and Political Science (1997-2003), as well as academic researcher of the Organization for American States (OAS) in the years 2000 to 2003.

During her presidency in SUTEL she has promoted issues such as the first regulatory agenda in the country, open sessions of the SUTEL Council with the participation of users and operators in several communities of the national territory and follow-up of issues related to competing markets, indicators of the telecommunications industry and measurements of the quality of services, inside the INTERACTIVE SUTEL platform.

At the professional level she has the following achievements:

- The creation of the First Telecommunications Rectory

- The elaboration of the First National Telecommunications Plan of Costa Rica (2009-2014) with a fulfillment of 90% of its goals.

- The design and implementation of the "Digital Divide Index" (IBD), which links the dimensions of access, use, quality and appropriation of telecommunications.

- The definition of the National Broadband Strategy.

- The negotiation of Mutual Agreement for the partial extinction of concessions for the use of the radioelectric spectrum ", which generated the first auction of radioelectric spectrum in the country in 2010.

- The Chairmanship of the mixed digital television commission that defined the standard digital TV format in Costa Rica.

In telecommunications, she has also been representative at the country level of several inter-institutional and international commissions, like the Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Commission of the Americas, the Commission of Telecommunications of Central America (COMTELCA) and the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (Elac-ECLAC).

Hannia Vega is a professional passionated about reading who enjoys during her free time practicing athletics and sharing with her nephews.