Luis Jimena Quesada (Massamagrell Valencia, 1968) is Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia and awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He has been officially recognised 5 five-year periods (of teaching), 5 six-year periods (of research) and 9 three-year periods (of service)

In addition, in the academic field, Luis Jimena was the First European Doctor of Law (PhD in Law) in the University of Valencia. He is the current Secretary General (since January 2016 till December 2019) of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France) founded by the Nobel Peace Prize René Cassin, where he has also been Professor and Director of Studies since 1993. In Spain, he has been Member and President (2014 and 2015) of the Spanish Committee (Law Section) of Independent Experts for the Assessment of the University Activity Research (ANECA – The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain, concerning the Spanish Higher Education System). Author of more than three-hundred publications in the field of Constitutional Law and European Human Rights Law, among them 17 books*.

Concerning his legal experience, he has been Member and President of the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe (2009-2014) as well as Substitute Judge at the High Court of Justice (Supreme Court of the Valencia Region –Administrative Chamber) since judicial year 1997/1998 till judicial year 2017/2018, where I has been the “Judge Rapporteur” of hundreds of judgments (see, e.g., the database CENDOJ of the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary -Consejo General del Poder Judicial-). Furthermore, he is currently “Ad Hoc” Judge at the European Court of Human Rights as well as independent person (alternate) representing the Council of Europe before the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (2015-2020).

Lorenzo Cotino Hueso, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia (“Catedrático), former judge of the High Court of Justice of the Valencia Region (2000-2019). PhD in Law and Graduate and Advanced Studies in Political Science, Guest professor at Konstanz (Germany) since 2004 and honorary professor of Universidad Nacional of Colombia and U. Católica de Cuenca (Educador). Author or editor of 20 books, he has written over 150 scientific articles and book chapters. OdiseIA Privacy Director. President since 2004 of National Association www.derechotics.com

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Rosario SERRA CRISTÓBAL is Full-Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia (Spain) and has a Ph. D. in Law (University of Valencia, 1997).

She is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, Valencia.

She is member of the Human Rights Institute of the same University, and member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law (ACE).

In 2018 she was awarded the prize of academic excellence by the Social Council of the University of Valencia.

From 1994 she has been member of several R&D projects with public financial support (and she was Project Leader of two of them) on European Union, Relations between regions and the European Union, the Principle of Equality, Regional Parliaments, Latin-American constitutionalism, Women and politics, Intersectional Discrimination, Social Rights within the economic crisis, and Trafficking. Today Rosario Serra takes part of the R&D Project on Global Security and Fundamental Rights.

She is author of several books,

- El Comité Económico y Social de las Comunidades Europeas (Mc Graw-Hill, 1996) (The Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities).

- La guerra de las Cortes: una revisión de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo a través del recurso de amparo (Tecnos, 1999), (The war of the Courts: a review of the Supreme Court’s case-law through the writ of amparo)

- La libertad ideológica del juez (Tirant lo Blanch, 2004), (Judge's ideological freedom)

- Trata sexual de mujeres. De la represión del delito a la protección de la víctima (Ministerio de Justicia, 2007) (Sexual trafficking of women. From law enforcement to protection of the victim)

- Prostitución y Trata. Marco Jurídico y Régimen de derechos (Coord.) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2007) (Prostitution and Trafficking. Legal Framework and System of Rights)

- La Selección de los Jueces en Estados Unidos (Thomson-Civitas, 2011) (The appointment of Judges in USA)

- Multidiscriminación en los ordenamientos jurídicos español y europeo (Coord.) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2012) (Multidiscrimination in Spain and Europe)

- (Co-autor) Rights and Freedoms in the Spanish Constitution, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2015.

- La seguridad como amenaza (Tirant lo Blanch 2020) (Security as a treaht)

She is author of articles in journals/periodicals and participations in books on Constitutional Law on fundamental rights, participation, civil society, judicial power, citizen’s representation in parliaments, trafficking and terrorism/data protection, national security, fake news.

Her resumé includes stays as visiting researcher at: University of Minnesota (EEUU), Université de Montpellier (Francia), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bélgica), Université Catholique de Louvain-la Neuve (Bélgica), Universita “La Sapienza” (Roma), Instituto Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Estrasburgo (Francia), la Académie internacional de Droit Constitutionnel (Túnez), Cardozzo School of Law (NYC-EEUU)

Her last participations in international Conferences or Congresses were in:

- “Have we the right to know we are being spied?”, XII Congress of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law, 3-4 April 2014, Salamanca, Spain.

- “The impact of Counter-terrorism Security Measures on Fundamental Rights”, IX World Congress of Constitutional Law, Oslo 2014.

- "Privacy and counter-terrorism in the digital era", Milan 2016.

- "Las relaciones entre el Derecho Anglosajón y el Derecho Latinoamericano”,Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2016.

- "Surveillance on data and electronic communications in the counter-terrorism fight in Spain", Paris 2016.

- “Trafficking as a form of violence against women”, Equality, Gender and Violence, University Castilla-La Mancha, 2017, Spain.

- “Surveillance of cross border passing”, in Journey on International protection on individuals and data, Castellón, Spain.

- "Processing personal data on Eu cross-border movements to fight terrorism", 10th World Congress of Constitutional Law, University, Seúl, Korea. June, 2018

- "Respuestas del pasado a la amenaza del terrorismo vs. nuevos planteamientos", International Congress “Espacios globales y seguridad: Estrategas de respuesta española”, University of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2018.

- "El control de los mensajes terroristas en internet”, IX International Seminar on Security and Defense. University of Jaén. October, 2020.