Alberto Escudero Pascual is currently Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology. He has been consultant in security and privacy world wide since 1996. He received his Diploma
Degree (M.Sc.) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid in the area
of renewable energies in 1998. Between 1998-1999 he has been doing research at the Bioengineering
and Telemedicine Group (UPM) in low cost internet access in developing countries and at the Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). In June 2001 he obtained a Tek Lic. Degree in the
subject of location privacy in mobile internet. During the last ten years his research interests include
wireless internet access in developing countries, community networks, privacy and security in mobile
internet, privacy-enhancing technologies and privacy threats in the next generation Internet. He is
currently participating in different European Union Forums in the area of Cybercrime and Data Protection.
In December 2002 he got his Ph.D "Privacy in the next generation Internet: Data
Protection in the context of European Union Policy".