Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces is the current President of the Government of the Principality of Asturias in Spain, and he is a member of the PSOE political party.

Areces was born in Gijón, in the Principality, on August 4, 1943, and prior to his becoming President of Asturias in 1999, he had served as mayor of Gijón between 1987 and 1999.