Women4Cyber Registry

Women4Cyber Foundation Vice Presidents since November 2019 and
n CEN and CENELEC Director General since 1 January 2010. CEN and CENELEC are two of the three recognized European Standardization Organizations supporting European Policies and Legislation.
Vice-President at Women4Cyber Foundation
CEN and CENELEC, recognised Standardisation Organisations under EU Law, are leading providers of European Standards that are driven by business and made through a transparent, balanced and consensus-based process in which all relevant stakeholders, including societal interest groups and SMEs are involved. CEN and CENELEC abide by the WTO TBT principles and beyond; they adapt proactively to new technology and social developments and support European competitiveness, the protection of the environment and sustainable growth for the well-being of citizens and the strengthening of the Single Market. CEN and CENELEC actively support international standardization and cooperate closely with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in order to foster and promote European competitiveness in the global market.
Mrs Santiago Cid is responsible for the direction and management of the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre, implementing the Digital transformation and Innovation Strategies and providing executive support to the activities of the General Assemblies and Administrative Boards of CEN and CENELEC, the CEN-CENELEC Presidential Committee, as well as their advisory committees. She manages the institutional relations with the European Union Institutions and EFTA, and is responsible for relations with the European sister organization ETSI, as a member of the Joint Presidents Group, and with the international organisations ISO and IEC, as a member of the Management Coordination Group.
From 2017 she was a members of the REFIT Platform under the leadership of EC VP Timmermans, set up to advise the Commission on how to make EU regulation more efficient and effective while reducing burden.
Mrs Santiago is also a member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for cybersecurity) advising its executive Director on the European Agency work programme and Vice-President of the Women4Cyber Foundation to reduce skill gasps and implement gender diversity in the Cybersecurity field.
Previous, Mrs Santiago Cid’s professional experience includes, Director General of CENELEC since September 2003, Director External relations in AENOR, the Spanish national standardization body and Seconded European expert to the European Commission to support the implementation of New Approach Directives in the electromechanical field, including support to trade agreements and coordination of market surveillance authorities.

Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and has 25 years’ experience in standardization.

Paula Fraga-Lamas received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from University of A Coruña
(UDC) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the joint program Mobile Network Information and
Communication Technologies from five Spanish universities: University of the Basque Country,
University of Cantabria, University of Zaragoza, University of Oviedo and University of A Coruña, in 2011
and 2017, respectively. She holds an MBA (best student record) and postgraduate studies in business
innovation management (Jean Monnet Chair in European Industrial Economics, UDC) and in Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) and social innovation (INDITEX-UDC Chair of Sustainability).
Since 2009, she has been working as Researcher in the Group of Electronic Technology and
Communications (GTEC), Department of Computer Engineering (UDC). She has over 60 contributions
(22 Q1/T1 ISI JCR) in indexed international journals, conferences, and book chapters, and holds 4 patents.
She has also been participating in over 30 research projects funded by the regional and national
government as well as R&D contracts with private companies like ADIF, Siemens, Indra Sistemas, or
Navantia, analyzing mission-critical scenarios (public safety, disaster relief, defense, and critical
infrastructures), and transportation industrial sectors (automotive, railways, ports or shipbuilding).
She is also involved in open-source projects that use blockchain to tackle fake news and disinformation
and projects that leverage IoT, sensors and disruptive technologies to develop cost-effective smart
agriculture and smart health systems aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
She is actively involved in many professional and editorial activities, acting as regular reviewer of
35+ international journals, advisory board member, topic/guest editor of top-rank journals and TPC
member of international conferences. She has worked as an expert evaluator in 50+ projects of the
European Commission, Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia,
and EQA. From 2012 to 2015, she was part of the exploratory team IST-ET-068 of NATO STO to explore
the potential applicability of commercial technologies to the next-generation tactical networks. Her
current research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Augmented
Reality (AR), fog and edge computing, blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), and
cybersecurity, from both a technical and business standpoint and focused on a strategic vision towards
digital transformation under the Industry 4.0 paradigm.

Available online: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R-nUjdgAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

https://www.gtec.udc.es/web/index.php@option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=57.html
https://umi.udc.es/es/equipo/trazabilidad-y-auto-id-tuberias/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfragalamas/