Dr. Raul M. Abril is a research fellow at KU Leuven, Public Governance Institute and an officer of the European Commission dealing with interoperability related EU policies. He is responsible for a portfolio of interoperability programs in the EC. He has been professor at several universities and been active publishing his research. He holds a doctoral degree (Brunel University, UK), an European PhD Certification (European Doctoral School on Knowledge Management, Denmark), an Ing. Sup. Informatics (UAB, Spain), and a Master in Project Management (The George Washington University, USA).
Expert
He has +35 year of ICT professional services experience, most of them in the private sector and holding several senior positions including R&D Portfolio manager in a major USA IT vendor and chief architect for EIRA and eGovERA. His knowledge domains cover Research Methods, Advanced Analytics, ICT R&D (Portfolio, Product, and Project Management), Knowledge Management, and ICT domains like DSS, BI, Data Warehousing, DBMS, reference architecture for digital solutions, and eGovernment.
Fields of expertise: Communication and information/ICTs, e-Transformation / e-Governance