Roberto Alonso is Secretary General of ANFACO-CECOPESCA, a private organization with 118 years of history and which brings together more than 250 companies from the Spanish sea-industry complex, including a leading Technological Center with more than 100 researchers. In his professional work, he represents and defends the strategic elements for the competitiveness of companies, interacting with various organizations (FDE, FAO, WTO) and public entities, participating in the advisory councils of the European Union (LDAC, MAC, CCSUD , AAC), in the European industrial association AIPCE-CEP or EUROTHON, as in various innovation initiatives such as the Technology Platform for Fishing and Aquaculture PTEPA, or the Datalife HUB recently created in Galicia, as well as collaborating punctually in the execution and dissemination of R+D projects. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering as well as a master's degree in Industrial Innovation from the University of Vigo, and also he has completed the LEAD program taught by Stanford University in Corporate Innovation.
