Alberto Abella is PhD in Business (Open data) and Telecommunications Engineer and Master in Total Quality Management, Business Administration and Business Organization. 

He works as a Data Modelling Expert and Technical Evangelist at FIWARE foundation and currently is the responsible person for the smart data modelsProgram. Formerly he worked as Senior Manager at desideDatum for the business lines of Data governance, open data and smart cities.  He is a research on data, data-reusability, open data, big data, and its use in several environments like Smart cities. Founder of the NGO initiatives Spanish chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation and Iniciativa Barcelona Open data. He is coauthor of the I, II and III white papers on open source in Spain and of the I, II and III report of the status of open data in Spain.