Alberto Pérez Gómez (Member at Large)
Alberto Pérez has been working since 2002 for RED.ES, a Spanish public agency in charge of promoting the Information Society in Spain, which, inter alia, manages RedIRIS (the Spanish national research and education network) and ‘Dominios.es’, the top level Registry for the ‘.es’ domain.
Alberto’s first tasks upon joining RED.ES related to the '.es' Registry, of which he became the Deputy Director. He is still in charge of international representation and policy development for this registry, representing it at international fora like ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) or CENTR (Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries). Alberto Pérez was elected as member of the CENTR Board of Directors in March 2007.
In 2004, Alberto Pérez became the Deputy Director of RedIRIS. This is now his main occupation. Since 2004, he has been representing RedIRIS at fora like TERENA meetings and the GN2 NREN PC (policy committee of national research and education networks involved with the GN2 project), and at the management boards of different EU-funded projects. He is currently the Chairman of the TERENA Task Force on Life Cycle and Portfolio Management, ‘TF-LCPM’.
Alberto Perez occasionally advises the State Department for Telecommunications and Information Society (to which RED.ES belongs) on matters related to policy and legal development for the ICT sector.
Prior to joining RED.ES, Alberto Pérez worked for the Spanish telecom regulator CMT (Comisión del Mercado de Telecomunicaciones) for three years, and for the University of Alcala as a lecturer from 1994-1999. Alberto has a Ph.D. in ICT law, has published two books and many articles on ICT policy, and has been a speaker at many conferences related to that sector. He also has an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa.