About Mr. Javier Hernandez-Ros

Trained as a civil engineer in Madrid (Universidad Politécnica), he has a Master's Degree in Business Administration (Instituto de Empresa). After seven years working in engineering companies in Spain, he joined the European Commission in 1986 and was involved in technology transfer and innovation policies, where he set up the European network of "Innovation Relay Centres" and the "Innovating Regions in Europe" network.

Since June 2002 he is Head of the "Access to Information " unit, coordinating the "EU Digital libraries" initiative and promoting legal initiatives to support the development of the digital content industry, notably the "directive for re-use of public sector information". He was responsible for the e-Content and the Safer Internet programmes for the period 2002-2005.