José Cepeda is a Spanish politician, senator of the kingdom of Spain, is a journalist and computer scientist with extensive experience in the world of corporate communication and new technologies, collaborator of different research projects. He has been a professor in different university institutions in the United States, Ibero-American and Spain. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), a member of the Party of European Socialists. He was elected Senator in representation of the Community of Madrid since 2015.  He is a spokesman for the Ibero-American Affairs Committee and Deputy Speaker in the Parliamentary Control Committee of the Spanish Radio Television Corporation (RTVE). In March 2016 he was elected by the Spanish Cortes as representative of Spain in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe where he is part of the European Socialist Group represented in the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media.