Tania Marcos Paramio

Vice-Chair, United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) / Head of Smart Sustainable Cities, Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE)

Tania is Head of Smart Sustainable Cities at the Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE), where serves as Manager of the Standards Committee CTN178 “Smart cities”, and acts as the national focal point for the development of Standards for Local Governments, which assist their transformation into smart cities/smart tourism destinations.

She is Vice-Chair of the UN initiative United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11, where she also participates at the Thematic Group on City Platforms. She is also Vice-chair of ITU-T Study Group 20 on Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C), on behalf of the Spanish Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure (formerly Information Society and Digital Agenda), within the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. Tania has been the Representative of the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Sector Forum on Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities, towards the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) of the European Commission. Senior Standardization Programme Manager, Tania has acted as secretary, relator, expert or convenor to different European, LATAM and International structures, dealing with Quality & Sustainability for public and private sectors.