Edgar Alejandro Ruvalcaba Gómez is a researcher and PhD candidate at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Spain. He received his bachelor´s degree in Law from the Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) in Mexico. He also received a Master in Public Policy of Local Governments, and a Master in Public Management in Virtual Environments from UDG. In recent years he has presented his research advances in seminars and conferences and has also published articles and chapters related to Open Government (Transparency, e-Participation, Open Data). Edgar has been “visiting scholar” at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and also in the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at University at Albany, NY, USA. He is currently conducting research on Public Policy and Public Management of Open Government in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at UAM. Twitter: @EDGAR_RUVALCABA
