The ACPUA is an autonomous body (public law entity) attached to the
Department of Employment, Science and Universities of the Government of Aragon.
Below are the functions, composition and members that are part of the governing bodies, the advisory body and the technical bodies of the Agency.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is the highest governing body of the Agency. Its main function is dictating the general strategy of the Agency: approval of the programming and annual report on the activities, approval of the budget; approval of memoranda of understanding, establishment of new technical committees, etc. It is made up of:
President
Claudia Pérez Forniés
Minister of Employment, Science and Universities from the Aragon Government
Vice-president
Mª Luisa Feijóo Bello
Aragon General Director of Universities
Secretary
Cristina Rodríguez Coarasa
Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance and Strategic Foresight in Higher Education Director
Substitute Secretary
Mª Pilar Gayán Sanz
Aragon General Director of Science and Research
Members
José Antonio Mayoral Murillo
Rector of the Universidad de Zaragoza
Silvia Carrascal Domínguez
Rector of the Universidad San Jorge
Aurelio López de Hita
President of the Social Advisory Board of the Universidad de Zaragoza
José Ángel Castellanos Gómez
Vice-Rector for Academic Policy of the Universidad de Zaragoza
Jorge Echeverría Ochoa
Vice-Rector for Academic Policy and Quality of the Universidad San Jorge
Fiona Crozier
Member of the Committee of Experts
Member of the Committee of Experts
Juan Carlos Dehesa Conde
Representative of CEOE Aragón, the Confederation of employers and industries
Carmelo Pérez Serrano
Representative of CEPYME Aragón, the Confederation of small and middle size companies
Josefina Jiménez Villar
Representative of UGT trade union
Ana Rosa Soria de Miguel
Representative of SOMOS Unizar
Eduardo Serrano Ibáñez
President of the Student's Council from the Universidad de Zaragoza
Amor Yun Bernal Cabrerizo
Student representative from the Universidad San Jorge
Archivos adjuntos
Chief Executive
Cristina Rodríguez Coarasa is Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. She holds a degree and PhD in Law from the Complutense University. Specialisation Diploma in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies.
For several years, until she joined the University Rey Juan Carlos, she has been a lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University, at the Higher Education Centre Cardenal Cisneros and at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Distance Education.
She focuses on her main line of research and publications in the field of fundamental rights, especially on educational issues such as academic freedom and university autonomy.
She has held various higher education management positions in the General Secretariat of the Rey Juan Carlos University and, as Deputy Director General, in the General Secretariat of Universities of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Her link with the Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance and Strategic Foresight in Higher Education began in 2020 as a member of the Appeals Committee of ACPUA until she took office as Director of the Agency.
Cristina Rodríguez Coarasa
Committee of Experts
The Committee of Experts is the Agency's advisory body and consists of:
Fiona Crozier
International Expert (Ireland)
Carlos Martín Montañés
Professor of the Universidad de Zaragoza
Máximo Valenciano Arranz
President of INYCOM
Rogelio Alonso Pascual
Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid
Archivos adjuntos
Appeals Committee
Technical body of the Agency which is responsible for supervising the proper conduct of the Agency's evaluation, certification and accreditation procedures and for reporting on appeals against decisions of the Director. This committee is made up of academics in higher education institutions, international professionals and students, at least half of whom have a legal background.
Gabriel Morales Arruga, Chair
Expert in Law
Cosimo Cascione, International
Professor of Roman Law at the University of Naples Federico II
Patricia Cifredo Ortíz, Student
PhD student at the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de Sevilla
Archivos adjuntos
CECA
Commission of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation
The Commission of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation (CECA) is the technical body that prepares and approves the Agency's evaluation methodologies, protocols and procedures. It does not evaluate or issue evaluation reports. It is made up of academic experts, students, professionals, international experts and external stakeholders.
Cristina Rodríguez Coarasa, President
ACPUA's Director
Patricia Espejo Megías
University of Castilla La Mancha
María Leonor González Menorca
University of La Rioja
Francisco Gracia Navarro
University of Córdoba
Laura Peiró Márquez, Student
University of Basque country
Luis A. Polo Rubio, External stakeholder 
Spanish Red Cross
Teresa Sánchez Chaparro External stakeholder
QA Expert, Madrid
Erika Soboleva, International
Director of the AKKORK, Russia
Archivos adjuntos
SET
Programmes Evaluation Committee
The Programmes Evaluation Committee (SET) is involved in the review of study programmes including programmes in the arts. This committee includes academic, professional, student and international experts, all from outside the University System of Aragon.
Jordi Suriñach Caralt, Social & Legal Sciences (Chair)
University of Barcelona
Jorge Fernández López, Arts & Humanities
University of La Rioja
Francisco Arnalich Fernández, Health Sciences
Autonomous University of Madrid
María Teresa Flores Arias, Sciences
University of Santiago de Compostela
Elena Valderrama Vallés, Engineering & Architecture
Autonomous University of Barcelona
David Joao Cordeiro Fernandes, Student
University of Murcia
Francisco Aracena Bernal, International
Universidad Andrés Bello de Chile
Elvira Congosto Luna, Professional
Mirabal International School
Archivos adjuntos
SEC
Institutions Evaluation Committee
The Institutions Evaluation Committee (SEC) acts mainly in the processes of certification of the internal quality assurance systems of faculties and university schools and in institutional accreditation. This committee includes academic, professional, student and international experts, all from outside the University System of Aragon.
Javier González Benito, President
University of Salamanca
Gaspar Ros Berruezo
University of Murcia
Gloria Zaballa Pérez
University of Deusto
Berta Fernández Álvarez, International
University of Leiden (Netherlands)
Sonia Corujo Capote, External stakeholder
QA expert, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
María Luisa Blanco Sánchez, Student
Pablo de Olavide University
Archivos adjuntos
SEI
Research Evaluation Committee
The Research Evaluation Committee acts in all evaluation processes related to the research activity of individuals or institutions. In this committee there must be experts from each field of knowledge and all of them must develop their main research activity outside the University System of Aragon.
Enrique Mirambell Arrizabalaga, Engineering & Architecture, Chair
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Ana María Camean Fernández, Health Sciences
Universidad de Sevilla
María José Frapolli, Arts & Humanities
Universidad de Granada
Eloísa Carbonell Porras, Area of Social & Legal Sciences
Universidad de Jaén
Antonia Garrido Frenich, Sciences 
Universidad de Almería
Archivos adjuntos
SEP
Faculty Evaluation Subcommittee (SEP)
The main technical function of this Subcommittee consists of the evaluation for the accreditation of hired professors with clinical links. The number of members of this Subcommittee will be adapted to the needs of the faculty evaluation functions that the Agency will progressively develop.
Francisco Gracia Navarro, President
University of Córdoba
Ana María Obeso Cáceres
University of Valladolid
Jaume Farrés Vicén
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Luis Grande Posa
Autonomous University of Barcelona
