Alberto Hernández holds a BS on Telecommunications Engineering by the ETSIT (Senior Technical School of Telecommunication Engineering) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and is a certified Security Director by the Spanish Ministry of Interior.  He has been part of INCIBE’s team since February 2014, first as Chief Operations Officer (COO), and currently as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 2016.

As INCIBE’s Chief Operations Officer he has been accountable for the implementation of the area in charge of services, technologies and activities focused on the industry,  as well as a department for R+D+I and talent development. He has been cooperating with the Organization of American States (OAS) as an international expert in missions for the development of national cybersecurity strategies in several Latin-American countries.

In his career previous to INCIBE, Alberto Hernández was Chief of the Cyberdefence Area of ISDEFE (Engineering Systems for the Defence of Spain), being part of the team who designed and implemented  the Joint Command for Cyberdefence of the Spanish Armed Forces.