Alejandro Patino is an information and communications technologies (ICT) sector specialist and researcher at unit of innovation and new technologies at ECLAC, with more than 15 years of experience in this field. He is co-author of several publications on the adoption of digital technologies, ICT statistics, and innovation at ECLAC and helped lead the coordination of the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2022). Before joining ECLAC, he was the Executive Director of the Agency for the Development of the Information Society in Bolivia, the manager of the country top level domain (ccTLD) and worked at the telecommunications regulatory body in Bolivia. He is an economist from Instituto Tecnológico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (I.T.E.S.M) and holds a master’s degree in Economics and Regulation of Public Utilities with a specialty in telecommunications from the University of Barcelona.