Professor of Applied Economics, Andrés Pedreño holds an Honorary Doctorate from Nottingham Trent University (UK). Rector of the University of Alicante (1993-2000) and CEO of Universia (2000-2004), a platform promoted by Banco Santander which in its first 4 years integrated 800 universities in 10 countries.

Eisenhower Fellow (programme at 20 US universities) in 1988. Author of more than 70 books, including the most recent: “Europe versus the US and China. Preventing decline in the age of Artificial Intelligence” and “Spain in the cloud: Startup Nation or the land of youth unemployment? Facing the challenges in the age of artificial intelligence”.

Co-founder of IT&IS SL (promoter of international digital success stories, including the Artificial Intelligence companies 1MillionBot.com and Lucentia LAB) Founding member of AlicanTEC (Association with 300 technology companies) and of the 1,070 Km Hub Network. Entrepreneur and researcher in Digital Economy. Founder of the technology campus specialising in Artificial Intelligence Torre Juana OST (Open Space Technology). He was part of the Committee of experts of the Spanish Government for the elaboration of the White Paper on Big data and Artificial Intelligence (2017-2019).