The ACPUA is an autonomous body (public law entity) attached to the
Department of Science, Higher Education and Knowledge Society of the Government of Aragon.
Below are the functions, composition and members that are part of the governing bodies, the advisory body and the technical bodies of the Agency.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is the highest body of the Agency. Its main function is dictating the general strategy of the Agency: approval of the programming and annual report on the activities, approval of the budget; approval of memoranda of understanding, establishment of new technical committees, etc.
President
Maru Díaz Calvo
Minister of Science, Higher Education and Knowledge Society from the Aragon Government
Vice-president
Yolanda Sancho Serrano
Aragon General Director for Higher Education
Secretary
Antonio Serrano González
Chief Executive of the ACPUA
Members
José Antonio Mayoral Murillo
Rector of the Universidad de Zaragoza
María Berta Sáez Gutiérrez
Rector of the Universidad San Jorge
Aurelio López de Hita
President of the Social Advisory Board of the Universidad de Zaragoza
Ramón Guirado Guillén
General Director in charge of Research from Aragon Government
José Ángel Castellanos Gómez
Vice-Rector for Academic Policy of the Universidad de Zaragoza
Alejandro López del Val
Vice-Rector for Faculty and Academic Affairs of the Universidad San Jorge
Fiona Crozier
Member of the Committee of Experts
Member of the Committee of Experts
Juan Guerrero Marcos
President of the Student's Council from the Universidad de Zaragoza
Manuel Mas Ferrer
Student representative from the Universidad San Jorge
Ana Gargallo Castel
Representative of CCOO trade union
Josefina Jiménez Villar
Representative of UGT trade union
Juan Carlos Dehesa Conde
Representative of CEOE Aragón, the Confederation of employers and industries
Carmelo Pérez Serrano
Representative of CEPYME Aragón, the Confederation of small and middle size companies
Chief Executive
Antonio Serrano González
Professor Antonio Serrano González has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Doctoral Degree in Law by the Universidad de Zaragoza. Law Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/ Main (Germany) and Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (USA), Federico II in Napoli and Roma Tre (Italy), Macao (China) and the EHESS in Paris (France). Coordinator of the Ph. D in Comparative History, Theory and Anthropology of European Legal Cultures (Marie Curie Training Site) in Spain. Languages: French, English, German and Italian.
Committee of Experts
The Committee of Experts is the Agency's advisory body and consists of:
Chair
Vacant
Fiona Crozier
International Expert (Ireland)
Eva Ferreira García
Professor of the Universidad del Pais Vasco
Carlos Martín Montañés
Professor of the Universidad de Zaragoza
Máximo Valenciano Arranz
President of INYCOM
Archivos adjuntos
Appeals Committee
Technical body of the Agency which is responsible for supervising the proper conduct of the Agency's evaluation, certification and accreditation procedures and for reporting on appeals against decisions of the Director. This committee is made up of academics in higher education institutions, international professionals and students, at least half of whom have a legal background.
Gabriel Morales Arruga, Chair
Expert in Law
Manuel Cachón Cadenas
Professor of Procedural Law at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Carmen Ocal García
Research Professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)
Cristina Rodríguez Coarasa
Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid
Cosimo Cascione, International
Professor of Roman Law at the University of Naples Federico II
Patricia Cifredo Ortíz, Student
PhD student at the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de Sevilla
Archivos adjuntos
CECA
Commission of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation
The Commission of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation (CECA) is the technical body that prepares and approves the Agency's evaluation methodologies, protocols and procedures. It does not evaluate or issue evaluation reports. It is made up of academic experts, students, professionals, international experts and external stakeholders.
Antonio Serrano González, Chair
Chief Executive
Patricia Espejo Megías
University of Castilla La Mancha
María Leonor González Menorca
University of La Rioja
Francisco Gracia Navarro
University of Córdoba
Laura Peiró Márquez, Student
University of Basque country
Luis A. Polo Rubio, External stakeholder 
Spanish Red Cross
Teresa Sánchez Chaparro External stakeholder
QA Expert, Madrid
Erika Soboleva, International
Director of the AKKORK, Russia
Archivos adjuntos
SET
Programmes Evaluation Committee
The Programmes Evaluation Committee (SET) is involved in the review of study programmes including programmes in the arts. This committee includes academic, professional, student and international experts, all from outside the University System of Aragon.
Jordi Suriñach Caralt, Social & Legal Sciences (Chair)
University of Barcelona
Jorge Fernández López, Arts & Humanities
University of La Rioja
Andrés Prat Marín, Health Sciences
University of Barcelona
Celso Rodríguez Fernández, Sciences
University of Santiago de Compostela
Elena Valderrama Vallés, Engineering & Architecture
Autonomous University of Barcelona
María Josefa de la Torre Molina, Higher Education in Arts
University of Málaga
Beatriz Atienza Carbonell, Student
University of Valencia
Archivos adjuntos
SEC
Institutions Evaluation Committee
The Institutions Evaluation Committee (SEC) acts mainly in the processes of certification of the internal quality assurance systems of faculties and university schools and in institutional accreditation. This committee includes academic, professional, student and international experts, all from outside the University System of Aragon.
José Ángel Domínguez Pérez, Chair
Universidad de Salamanca
Gaspar Ros Berruezo
Universidad de Murcia
Miguel Valero García,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech (UPC)
Gloria Zaballa Pérez
University of Deusto
Ana Rosa Gómez Arroyo, External stakeholder
QA expert, Valencia
Berta Fernández Álvarez, International
University of Leiden (Netherlands)
Archivos adjuntos
SEI
Research Evaluation Committee
The Research Evaluation Committee acts in all evaluation processes related to the research activity of individuals or institutions. In this committee there must be experts from each field of knowledge and all of them must develop their main research activity outside the University System of Aragon.
Enrique Mirambell Arrizabalaga, Engineering & Architecture, Chair
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Elías Fernando Rodríguez Ferri, Health Sciences
Universidad de León
Fernando López Alsina, Arts & Humanities
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Eloísa Carbonell Porras, Area of Social & Legal Sciences
Universidad de Jaén
Antonia Garrido Frenich, Sciences 
Universidad de Almería
Archivos adjuntos
SETE
Subcommittee on Thematic Evaluations (SETE)
The main technical function of this Subcommittee will be to prepare proposals for evaluation protocols, including the implementation and development of pilot evaluations.
Leonor González Menorca, President
University of La Rioja
Pilar Figuera Gazo
University of Barcelona
Julio Gaitán Bohorquez, International expert
University of el Rosario (Bogotá)
María Jesús Blanco Sánchez
University Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
José María Gómez Sancho
University of Zaragoza
Vacant
Irene Melchor Lacleta, External stakeholder
Miguel Catalán High School, Zaragoza
University of Basque country
Sonia Seijas Ramos
University of A Coruña
SEP
Faculty Evaluation Subcommittee (SEP)
The main technical function of this Subcommittee consists of the evaluation for the accreditation of hired professors with clinical links. The number of members of this Subcommittee will be adapted to the needs of the faculty evaluation functions that the Agency will progressively develop.
Francisco Gracia Navarro, President
University of Córdoba
Ana María Obeso Cáceres
University of Valladolid
Jaume Farrés Vicén
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Luis Grande Posa
Autonomous University of Barcelona- Hospital del Mar
