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 council of the Agency, being the Government board of the Agency and consists of:
President
Maru Díaz Calvo
President of Innovation, Research and Higher Education from the Aragon Government
Vice-president
Ramón Guirado Guillén
Aragon General Director for Higher Education
Secretary
Antonio Serrano González
Chief Executive of the ACPUA
Members
José Antonio Mayoral Murillo
Rector of the University of Zaragoza
María Berta Sáez Gutiérrez
Rector of the San Jorge University
Manuel Serrano Bonafonte
President of the Social Advisory Board of the University of Zaragoza
Enrique Navarro Rodríguez
General Director in charge of Research from Aragon Government
Gerardo Sanz Saiz
Vice-Rector for Academic Policy of the University of Zaragoza
Alejandro López del Val
Vice-Rector for Faculty and Academic Affairs of the San Jorge University
Fiona Crozier
Member of the Committee of experts
Member of the Committee of experts
Gonzalo Martínez Marcos
President of the Student's Council from the University of Zaragoza
Manuel Mas Ferrer
Student Representative from the San Jorge University
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 University of 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:
Laurent Mayali, Chair
Lloyd M. Robbins Professor, Berkeley Law, University of California
Fiona Crozier
International Expert (Ireland)
Eva Ferreira García
Professor of the University of Pais Vasco
Carlos Martín Montañés
Professor of the University of Zaragoza
Máximo Valenciano Arranz
President of INYCOM
Archivos adjuntos
Appeals Committee
This is the technical body of the Agency which has the task of supervising the correct processing of the Agency's evaluation, certification and accreditation procedures, reporting all complaints and appeals received by the Agency. It was created by agreement of the Board of Directors of 4 May 2015, in order to comply with the new ESG 2.7. Complaints and Appeals, introduced by the Conference of Ministers of the EEES (Yerevan 2015). Academics, professionals, internationals and learners are part of this committee. At least half of them must have legal training.
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 University Rey Juan Carlos of 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 University of Sevilla
Archivos adjuntos
CECA
Committee of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation
The Committee of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation (CECA) is the technical body that develops and approves the Agency's evaluation methodologies, protocols and procedures. It does not evaluate or issue evaluation reports. It is composed of academic experts, students, professionals, international experts and external stakeholders.
Antonio Serrano González, Chair
Chief Executive
Patricia Espejo Megías
University of Castilla La Mancha
Vacancy, Vocal académico
Universidad de Zaragoza
María Leonor González Menorca
University of La Rioja
Francisco Gracia Navarro
University of Cordoba
Ignacio Ladrero Paños, Student
University of Zaragoza
Luis A. Polo Rubio, External stakeholder 
Cruz Roja Española
Teresa Sánchez Chaparro External stakeholder
QA Expert, Madrid
Erika Soboleva, International
Director of the AKKORK, Russia
Archivos adjuntos
SET
Programme Evaluation Committee
The Programme Evaluation Committee (SET) is involved in the evaluation processes of university education, including higher education 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
Mariano Esteban de Vega, Arts & Humanities
University of Salamanca
Andrés Prat Marín, Health Sciences
University of Barcelona
Celso Rodríguez Fernández, Sciences
University of Santiago de Compostela
Elena Valderrama Vallés, Engineering & Architecture
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
María Josefa de la Torre Molina, Higher Education in Arts
University of Málaga
Beatriz Atienza Carbonell, Student
University of Valencia
Irene Melchor Lacleta, External stakeholder
Reyes Católicos High School, Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza)
Julio Gaitán Bohorquez, International expert
Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá)
Archivos adjuntos
SEC
Programme Evaluation Committee
The Institutions Evaluation Committee (SEC) is the technical committee responsible for studying technical judgments from the evaluation or visit panels, issuing then the corresponding evaluation reports. It acts primarily in the certification processes of the internal quality assurance systems of university faculties and schools and in institutional accreditation. In this committee there is a presence of academic, professional, student and international experts, all from outside the Aragonese University System.
José Ángel Domínguez Pérez, Chair
University of Salamanca
Gaspar Ros Berruezo
University of Murcia
Miguel Valero García,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech (UPC)
Gloria Zaballa Pérez
University of Deusto
María Jesús Blanco Sánchez, Student
Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
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 (SEI) is the technical committee responsible for studying the technical judgments of the expert panels, issuing then the corresponding evaluation reports. It acts in all evaluation processes related to the research activity of people or institutions. In this committee there must be experts from each branch of knowledge and all of them have to develop their main research activity outside the University System of Aragon
José Bonet Solves, Sciences, Chair
Universitat Politécnica (Valencia)
Fernando López Alsina, Arts & Humanities
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Eloísa Carbonell Porras, Area of Social & Legal Sciences
University of Jaén
María del Mar Malagón Poyato, Health Sciences
University of Córdoba
Enrique Mirambell Arrizabalaga, Engineering & Architecture
Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
Elías Fernando Rodríguez Ferri, Health Sciences
University of León
