Juan Alfonso Fernández González is an Advisor in the Ministry of Communications and Assistant Professor in the University of Informatics Sciences of Cuba.
He is currently a member of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations Open-ended working group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 20212025.
Previously, he was Coordinator of the Cuban Commission for Electronic Commerce, Director of Information Technology of Cuba’s Ministry of the Steel, Mechanic and Electronic Industry, Technical Director and Project Manager in the Robotic and Software Center, and a Senior Researcher in the Microelectronics Research Center of the Technological University of Havana.
He was a member of the United Nation’s Secretary General Multistakeholder Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum, of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development, and an Advisor for the Cuban expert of the United Nation’s 5th Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security.
Before, he was a member of the United Nations’ Global Alliance for ICT and Development, ICT Task Force and of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).
He participated actively in the negotiating process for the outcome documents of both phases of the World Summit on the Information Society.
He has given lectures and published articles about microelectronics, computer programming, robotics, local microcomputer networks, the management of big software projects, Internet applications, electronic commerce, the economic sustainability of international telecommunication networks, ICT for development, Internet governance and cybersecurity.
He has a Physics Degree from Havana University and the degree of Senior Researcher of the National Academy of Sciences of Cuba.
He has received various technical and scientific awards, and has a Patent in Image Processing. He is also an International Chess Master.