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Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Toledo)
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Shane Tews
Nonresident Senior Fellow American Enterprise Institute
Shane Tews is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on digital economy issues including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, next-generation networking (5G), the Internet of Things, international internet governance, international information, and communications technology (ICT), and emerging technologies. She is also president of Logan Circle Strategies, a strategic advisory firm.
She is vice chair of the board of directors of the Internet Education Foundation; Vice-chair of the Internet Society’s Washington, DC, chapter; member of the board of SeedAI; chair of the board of directors at TechFreedom. Previously, Ms. Tews served as co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum USA. and former chair of the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things of the Internet Governance Forum. She was a member of the board of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the Information Technology Industry Council, and Global Women’s Innovation Network. She also managed internet security and digital commerce issues as vice president of global policy for Verisign. She began her career in the George H. W. Bush White House as a deputy associate director in the Office of Cabinet Affairs and later moved to Capitol Hill as a legislative director for Rep. Gary Franks (R-CT).
Héctor Martínez Sánchez-Mateos
Associate Professor of Human Geography University of Castilla-La Mancha
Hector Martínez Sanchez-Mateos is a geographer and associate professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He also maintains a PhD in transport, territorial planning, sustainable mobility and land management and has experience as a visiting researcher at the European universities of Oxford, Twente and Sassari.
Additionally, Sanchez-Mateos has participated in multiple research and higher education projects since 2003. His publications cover diverse topics related to spatial analysis, from transport planning at different scales to territorial policies linked to cohesion and equity.
