President, Segittur Turismo e Innovación, Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo, Gobierno de España

Born in 1959 in León, he holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Master in Public Management, a University Master in Leadership and Public Management (UIMP-INAP), an expert in Policy Evaluation and Quality of Services and a Diploma in "New Forms of Leadership and Political Transformation". He has extensive experience in smart territories, as he has held responsibilities in this field as an advisory member of the Cabinet of the SESIAD, as well as being the coordinator of the National Plan for Smart Territories and president of the Technical Committee for Standardisation 178 of UNE (Smart Cities) (October 2013/July 2018).

He has developed his professional career in different organisations, being a member advisor of the Undersecretariat of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (April 2009 to February 2011), director of organisation, technological development and risk control of the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Public Administrations and Policies (FIIAPP) (February 2011- May 2011) and advisor of the National Postal Sector Commission (CNSP), regulatory body of the postal market, (May 2011 to October 2013).

He has also been Director General of the National Institute of Communication Technologies (INTECO, now INCIBE), under the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (March 2006/March 2009), as well as Director of the Telecommunications Observatory for the Information Society of Red.es (July 2004/October 2006) and Director of the Technical Office, which, within the C.A.T.S.I., defined the Convergence Plan on which the Avanza Plan was drawn up (July 2004/October 2006).