Juan Antonio Tebar
Director of Innovation Policy
CDTI
Juan Antonio Tébar Chumillas is an Aeronautical Engineer and holds an International MBA from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He also completed an Executive Development Program at IESE Business School, a program in Innovation and Leadership at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a postgraduate degree in Public Affairs Management from the Innovation Law Center at Comillas Pontifical University, and a Strategic Innovation Program at ESADE Business School. He began his professional career in 1998 as a trainee at the Aircraft Chair of the School of Aeronautical Engineering at UPM, and later worked as a design engineer in the Military Transport Division of EADS for the A400M program. Since 2008, he has been part of the staff of CDTI, where he currently serves as Director of Innovation Policy. He is a member of the Spanish delegation to the Strategic Committee of the Horizon Europe Programme, the Spanish representative in the Member States group of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a member of the Spanish delegation to the Airbus Intergovernmental Group, and a member of the Board of Directors of ENSA Equipos Nucleares.