Francisco Herrera

Cybersecurity and Operational Risk Expert European Central Bank

Francisco José Herrera Luque (Paco Herrera) is a Cybersecurity and Operational Risk Expert in the Directorate General Market Infrastructures of the European Central Bank and Payments and Professor of the Master in Cybersecurity of Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICAI) in Madrid. Having a Master Degree in Electrical Engineer from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, he has more than 10 years of experience in cybersecurity in different roles and positions, covering the three lines of defence and comprising academia – as a researcher in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, - security operations – as security engineer in Airbus Military, consultancy and managed security services – as team lead and manager in Deloitte Cyber, and Central Banking – as IT risk examiner for the Single Supervisory Mechanism in Banco de España and cybersecurity expert for the internal cybersecurity in Banco de España and for the security governance in the European Central Bank.