(Cádiz, 1938)
Doctor in Economics and Business Sciences from the Complutense University and the University of Rome. He has developed his intellectual work in various fields, from teaching to research, through various positions of responsibility. As a professor, his texts are obligatory references in the discipline of Economic Policy in Spanish universities. Some of his works, such as Introduction and Methodology of Economic Policy, Theory and monetary policy, Fundamentals and current role of Economic Policy or Chaotic Dynamics in Economics: Theory and Applications, are the subject of constant reissues. In his role as researcher, Andrés Fernández Díaz has been the first economist to carry out systematic work of a scientific nature on inductive planning techniques in Spanish universities.
Member of international groups such as the American Economic Association, the Royal Economic Association, the Center for International Research, the Trade Policy Research Centre, the Association Tière-Monde or the International Institute of Public Finance. Andrés Fernández has also collaborated as a guest professor with the universities of the Sorbonne, Bari, Rome, Buenos Aires, Berkley, the College de France and the Institut de Sciences Mathematiques. He was General Director of Planning and General Director of the National Statistics Institute during the implementation of the June 1977 elections, in which he was also one of the members of the Central Electoral Board. It was also during these years that his representation work was an impetus for the creation of the University of Cádiz. He has been distinguished with the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain, with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, with the Order des Palmes Academiques of the French Republic, with the Cross of Military Merit of the First Class and with the Cross of Police Merit, among other awards. Professor in Special Services at the Complutense University, member of the Governing Council of the Astrobiology Center (INTA-NASA) and director of the Spanish Journal of External Control of the Court of Accounts.
He participated in Medialab Madrid within the conferences organized for “Cibervisión02. Winter Cycle of Science and Technology of the Complutense University of Madrid” (February 27, March 4-8, March 11-15, 2002). In the context of the I International Festival of Art, Science and Technology – Cibervisión 02, a cycle of 18 conferences was held in which prominent personalities from the world of science, art and thought participated. The cycle addressed the topic of flows from the most diverse angles and contexts: those related to fluid physics; the dynamics of complex and self-organizing systems; global and economic ecosystem models; energy and information flows; neural flows and educational processes.
