Short Biography
A native of Madrid, Spain, Pablo G. Molina is Associate VicePresident for Information Technologies since 2007 and campus CIO since 2000 at Georgetown University. Prior to that, he worked as director of information technology for the University of Pennsylvania Law School, lecturer/director of information systems for Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law, and senior lecturer for the University of Missouri in Saint Louis Business School. Before his career in academia, he was MIS manager at the Saint Louis Zoo. Prior to that, he created and managed a technology company in Madrid, where he also served as Editor in Chief of computer magazines, authored several books on technology, and taught information technology at the Escuela de Hacienda Pública.
Pablo has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Saint Louis University, has done graduate coursework at the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in Saint Louis, and is pursuing a Doctorate degree at Georgetown University. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, a Certified Novell Engineer, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and a Certified Information Privacy Professional.
He regularly speaks at conferences on technology in law and higher education, like the Computer Assisted Legal Instruction, American Bar Association, Bricks and Bytes, American Association of Law Schools, American Association of Law Libraries, and EDUCAUSE. He is the recipient of the 2001 Excellence in Service CALI Award. Pablo recently served on national higher education committees like the Facilities Committee of the ABA’s Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Section and as chair of the EDUCAUSE’s Evolving Technologies Committee. In 2001, Pablo Molina founded the Law CIO Group, a group of information officers from the top law schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. He was the recipient of the 2006 CIO Magazine Ones to Watch Award and the Standout Achievement Award as Innovator and was recognized in 2007 as one of the Top 40 Under 40 IT Innovators by ComputerWorld. He was nominated for the Mid-Atlantic Information Security Executive of the Year and the National Information Security Executive of the Year awards in 2007. In 2008, his profile was published in Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology's Tech Leaders You Need to Know and he was recognized as one of the top 100 technology executives by the Hispanic Technology Council. He was featured in Madrilenos por el Mundo on Telemadrid in November of 2008.
Pablo regularly serves as a consultant on organizational and technology policy issues for some of the most prestigious academic institutions.