The Severo Ochoa Project at the IFT is managed by the Severo Ochoa Steering Committee, assisted by the SO Project Manager, and overseen by the Scientific Assembly of the IFT Faculty and the Scientific Advisory Board, composed by world-renowned scientists in our field: Luis Álvarez-Gaumé (Simmons Center for Geometry and Physics), Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), Graciela Gelmini (UCLA), Luciano Maiani (U. Roma 1), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) and Fernando Quevedo (DAMTP).