César Pérez-Chirinos

César Pérez-Chirinos is currently advisor in Technology and Innovation of the General Secretariat of the Treasury and Financial Policy, within the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

He also chairs the Spanish working group of technical standards on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, contributing to ISO TC 307, ITU-T Focus Groups and other international standards setting bodies on the subject. He has been appointed by the OECD as member of its Blockchain Experts Policy Advisory Board, which is currently drafting the OECD’s regulatory recommendations on blockchain planned for approval by mid-2020.

Also, he has been member of the team in charge of the last update (2019) of the Spanish Cybersecurity National Strategy bringing the experience of the financial sector on this issue.

He is member of the civil servants staff of Banco de España, and former duties there include: performing IT audit inspections of large financial institutions, on behalf of the Single European Banking Supervision Mechanism; setting up and managing the Business Continuity Unit at Banco de España (2005-2010); advising the European Central Bank on Business Continuity Management (2010-2012), among others.

César has played multiple roles in the field of software engineering, from 1975 to 2005, including the management, technical direction, assessment of proposals and review of R&D projects financed by the EU Framework Programmes on distributed object databases.

He holds a Master on Hydraulics and Energetics from the civil engineering school of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and has received the Medal of Professional Merit of the Spanish professional association of civil engineers for his contributions to organizational resilience in the Bank of Spain and the European Central Bank and, as co-founder of Continuam, a Latin American business continuity institute, of which he is Honorary President.

He has also an extensive teaching experience on several areas of software, both in professional training and to post graduate students. Currently he coordinates the knowledge area on blockchain and artificial intelligence within the master on Digital Transformation and Technology in Engineering, a joint initiative of the Spanish professional association of civil engineers and the Distance Learning National University of Spain.