Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga is UNESCO Chair on Gender, Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Chair of the Advisory Group on Gender Issues to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. She is a leading international expert on gender in transportation, urban planning and architecture with extensive experience spanning public office, policy, practice, and research. A Fulbright grantee and Real Colegio Complutense Fellow, she has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, the Bauhaus-Weimar, LSE, and Columbia University. 

Inés has held public office in the Spanish Government as Director of the Women and Science Unit, Director General for Architecture, advisor to the Ministers of Housing and of Science and Innovation, and member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Public Housing Corporation. She chaired the Expert Group of the European Commission for gender equality in STI, the IberoaAmerican and Spanish Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism, and is a member of the UNESCO Expert Group to promote women in science. She has been director of over 70 research and consultancy projects funded by local, national and regional governments in Spain, as well the European Commission, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and various UN agencies. Her innovative work on mobilities of care has granted her international recognition around the world. 

She is a renowned public speaker at all types of professional and policy fora in over 55 countries in five continents. She is author of over 100 articles and book chapters and several books including: Engendering Cities, Routledge 2020, and Fair Shared Cities, 2013. In 2021, she received the Matilde Ucelay Award, granted by the Spanish Government, in recognition for her professional trajectory.