Professor Luis Fernandez-Sanz

Luis earn BSc+MSc in Informatics from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1989 and PhD with extraordinary doctoral award from Univ. of Basque Country in 1997. He has served as interim associate professor at UPM (1989-1996), aggregate professor and head of department at Universidad Europea de Madrid (1996-2008) and associate professor at Universidad de Alcalá (since 2008). He has been a CEO of an ICT service SME (2002-2006) in Spain and has acted as freelancer consultant for big companies, both national and multinational. Luis has been Member of Board of CEPIS (2011-13, 2016-2020) and he is president from 2022. He has actively contributed to the development of EU reference frameworks for digital skills and employment. Luis is the only person in EU who has contributed as hired/official expert to the development of the three main references in the area: the ESCO labour classification for ICT services, the European standard of e-competences for ICT professionals EN6234-1:2019 and DigComp, The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens. As main researcher and project manager, he is acting or has acted as leader on behalf of Universidad de Alcalá, ATI and CEPIS in 18 EU-funded research and innovation projects as well as a number of international contracts and projects with multinational consultancy firms.