PABLO GARCÍA MEXÍA, JD, Ph.D.
Consultant-Head of Digital Law Herbert Smith Freehills. Counsel at the Spanish Parliament (Letrado de
las Cortes Generales). Co-founder of Syntagma.org, a private think-tank. Co-Director of the Postgraduate
Degree in data protection at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and Director of
the specialized review "Revista de Privacidad y Derecho Digital". Pablo
is a former Visiting Professor of Law at The College of William & Mary
(Virginia, USA).
He has been a member of the group of innovation leaders in the Spanish speaking
world "Los 100 de COTEC" (COTEC Foundation). He has been Vice-president of
Internet Society-Spanish chapter and of the association of digital lawyers
ENATIC. Member of the Board of the Civil Society Forum. Pablo has performed as an
Arbitrator for the World Bank (ICSID). He has worked as an international
consultant for the United Nations and the European Union. He has been Director
of Human Resources of the Senate of Spain, Secretary General of Madrid´s
Regional Parliament and Director of International Relations of Spain´s Congress
of Deputies. A Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, he attended postgraduate
courses at IE Business School, the University of Kent at Canterbury and the
University CEU-San Pablo. He is the author of nine books (in English or
Spanish) and editor of another four on various legal issues, especially those
connected to the Internet; he has written over 50 articles in scholarly
reviews. A regular speaker at various international and domestic forums, as
well as a regular contributor to a number of mass and specialized media. He
holds the "Cruz de Oficial de la Orden de Isabel la Católica" (a
civil decoration granted by the King of Spain). Pablo was granted the 2019 ISACA Award to Exceptional Achievement in Legal Cybersecurity. He is co-author of a WIPO-registered industrial design (The Hague Agreement International Register, 2021).
