José Pablo Carrera Fernández

Born in Ponferrada (León) in 1984, he graduated in Law from the University of Valladolid. He also holds an MA in Human Rights, Democracy and Globalisation from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has also completed post-graduate university courses mainly focused on Human Rights, Family Law, and European Union Law.

He joined the judiciary in 2013 and has been judge in the First Instance and Investigative Court nº3 of Granadilla de Abona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), First Instance Court nº5 of Arona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and Commercial Court nº1 of Burgos. He was seconded judge to the European Court of Human Rights between September 2021 and August 2022. Since May 2023 he has been Head of the External and Institutional Relations Department of the Spanish Judicial School. He has been an associate lecturer at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, where he has taught Civil Law in the Law Degree programme. He is an accredited trainer for the Council of Europe's HELP programme.