Francisco Moreno Fernández

Francisco Moreno-Fernández (born in Mota del Cuervo, Spain, in 1960) is a Spanish dialectologist and sociolinguist.

Moreno-Fernández holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, is Honorary Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Alcalá (Spain), Alexander von Humboldt professor at Heidelberg University and Director of the Observatorio Global del Español at the Instituto Cervantes.

Since acceptance of this professorship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and endowed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research he is directing the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS).

He was Academic and Research Director of the Comillas Foundation for the study and teaching of Spanish Language and Culture (2006–2008) and Director of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University (Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States) (2013-2018).

He was founder and first general editor of the journal Lengua y migración / Language & Migration.