Governing Committee

GOVERNING COMMITTEE

The Governing Committee is the highest governing body of CITIC. Some of the most relevant competences of the Governing Board are to approve the general programme of activities of the centre, to approve its strategic plan and its budget, and to articulate programmes that receive contributions from the public and private sectors.

Ricardo Cao Abad

Chair

Rector of the Universidade da Coruña since 2024. He has been awarded the National Statistics Prize (2023) and the Research Medal of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (2023). Degree in Mathematics (1988) with Extraordinary Prize and 1st National Prize of Degree and PhD in Mathematics (1990) with Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate.

José Alberto Díez de Castro

Member

Current Secretary General of Universities of the Xunta de Galicia. University lecturer in the area of Business Organisation at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Former Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the USC at the Lugo Campus.

Valentín González Formoso

Member

President of the Provincial Council of A Coruña since July 2015. He has been mayor of As Pontes municipality since 2007, a position he revalidated in the municipal elections of 2011 and 2015. He was general secretary of the PSdeG-PSOE political party until February 2024. He holds a degree in Law from the Universidade da Coruña.

Inés Rey García

Member

Mayor of A Coruña City Council, graduated in Law from the University of A Coruña. She was a member of the Senate of the UDC, participated in the drafting committee of the Statutes and was a member of its Governing Council. Before taking office as a councillor and becoming the first female mayor of the city, she dedicated her professional life to the practice of law.

Jerónimo Puertas Agudo

Member

Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer of the Universidade da Coruña. He is a Civil Engineer and holds a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Professor at the UDC since 1994 and University Professor since 2003. He is vice-president of the Spanish chapter of the International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR).

Manuel F. González Penedo

Member

Director of CITIC and Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of A Coruña. He is founder of the Artificial Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Group, a group of excellence by the Xunta de Galicia (VARPA) of the UDC, member of the Institute of Biomedical Research of A Coruña (INIBIC) and responsible for the area of medical image processing.

Javier Pereira Loureiro

Secretary

Deputy Director of CITIC and university lecturer in the area of Radiology and Physical Medicine at the University of A Coruña. Coordinator of the research group Tecnología Aplicada a la Investigación en Ocupación, Igualdad y Salud (TALIONIS). He is also coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences at the UDC and director of the Handytronic-Grupo Telecon Chair at the UDC.

Marta García Pérez

Member

General Secretary of the rector’s team of the Universidade da Coruña. She holds a degree in Law, PhD in Law with Extraordinary Prize and Professor of Administrative Law. She served as Alternate Magistrate in the Superior Court of Justice of Galicia between 2011 and 2014 and was Director of Legal Services with the City Council of A Coruña between 2015 and 2019.