María de Los Milagros Gascó-Hernández

Mila Gascó-Hernandez is the Associate Research Director at the Center for Technology in Government and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College. Before joining the University of Albany, Gascó served as a Senior Researcher at ESADE’s Institute of Governance and Public Management and Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management. Prior to that, she was a Senior Analyst at the International Institute on the Governance of Catalonia and a professor at Rovira Virgili University and Pompeu Fabra University, both in Spain.

Gascó has considerable consulting experience in the areas of information, knowledge, and society. She has worked for a wide variety of organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, the Mayor’s Office in Valencia, Venezuela, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the City Council and the Provincial Council of Barcelona, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Latin American Center on Management for Development (for whom she co-developed the Ibero-American Interoperability Framework), the World E-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (where she was the leading judge for the WeGo Awards), the Inter-American Development Bank, and Google.

Her areas of research are mainly related to information and technology in government, including electronic and open government, e-governance, public sector innovation, smart cities, and public policy evaluation.

Gascó holds an MBA and a PhD in public policy evaluation. She was awarded the Enric Prat de la Riba award for the best PhD thesis on public management and administration by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia in Barcelona.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Research Director / 2016 – 2021. Associate Research Director, Center for Technology in Government, SUNY Albany. USA, 2021 – Present

• Independent Consultant, Barcelona, 2007 – Present

• Senior Researcher at The Institute of Public Governance and Management and The Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, ESADE. Barcelona, 2008 – 2016

• Senior Analyst. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2000 – 2007

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, SUNY. USA, 2016 – Present

• Part-time professor. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1999 – 2013

• Part-time professor. Pompeu Fabra university. Barcelona, 2007 – 2011

• Professor at Universitat Rovira i Vigil. Tarragona, 1995 – 2000

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD in Evaluation of Local Public Policies, Universitat Rovira i Vigili, 1995 – 2001

• LIC & MBA at ESADE, 1989 – 1994