Sebastián Muriel Herrero is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSIT-UPM) and Executive MBA in IESE. Since December 2006 is the General Director of Red.es, institution of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce for the development of the Information Society.
He is a member of the Patronato de FUNDETEC and of the Business School EOI.
Since April 2007 is the President of the Asociación XBRL España
His professional carreer has been related with ICT in the private sector. He started in Hewlett Packard, and before starting with Red.es, he was part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers team.