Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar is Full Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Granada, Spain, where he has been teaching in different undergraduate and postgraduate’s courses from 1997. He is also currently the Director of the Economic Office at the University of Granada and responsible of managing the budget of the University. Manuel Pedro also holds a BA and Ph. D. in Business Sciences.

His research interest is focused mainly on e-government, smart cities, information systems, electronic participation, emerging technologies, and smart governance at local level. He has been member of organization, programme, and scientific committees of international conferences, and has co-chaired different tracks in international conferences such as ICEGOV, IFIP EGOV Cedem e-Part, HICSS and other conferences, particularly, in the e-governance area. Also, he has been an invited speaker and researcher in other universities.

Manuel Pedro has authored 117 articles in indexed international journals (70 of them in JCR journals), many contributions to national and international conferences, more than 56 book chapters published in leading editorials (Routledge, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, Palgrave, Nova Publishers and IGI Global) and he is author of full-length books published in Spain. He is also editor of books in Springer, IGI Global, Routledge and Palgrave, and he is a member of the Editorial Board of Government Information Quarterly (JCR), Public Administration and Development (JCR) and 10 more international journals, and he is Editor in Chief of Sustainability (JCR -sustainable development section-), International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age and series Editor of Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT) book series in Springer.

Finally, Manuel Pedro has also been a collaborator of United Nations and has participated and supervised national research projects in the field of e-government, focused on information transparency and web 2.0 technologies in public administrations. He is also a reviewer of more than 60 journals, of which 47 are indexed in SSCI/JCR, and various international conferences and research projects on information systems.