Smart & liveable cities & territories

Ángel González has a degree in Industrial Technical Engineering and a Master's in Business Administration from I.I. San Telmo. He has been working in the world of transport since 1994, starting his career at Acotral. He has also been a director at other transport and logistics companies, while at the same time serving as director of the Mutua de Accidentes de Trabajo Zaragozana (MAZ). Since 2018, he has been a member of FELOG (Forum of Logistics Experts), to which he was invited due to his experience implementing EMS in Spain, and since 2022 he has been the Managing director of the ONTIME Group, the largest domestically-owned logistics operator. Over his long career, he has led numerous initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint and improve sustainability, always upholding it as the confluence of three factors: economic, social and environmental.

CEO of Abertis Mobility Services (AMS), Abertis Group's Competency center operating through Emovis, world leader in mobility solutions and services that regulate the use of urban and interurban infrastructures.
Previously, he was General Director of Autopista Central in Chile, the largest free-flow urban toll highway in the country, and Commercial Director of Víaschile, a business unit of the Abertis Group that operates the Group's local concession road network, leading from that position the transformation of traditional toll highways to the free-flow electronic model. He has also been a director on the boards of the International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association, IBTTA, United States, and COPSA, an association of public works concessionaires in Chile.
Christian Barrientos holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial and mechanical Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Javier has a degree in Business Administration and Management from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, holds an Executive MBA and Executive Master in Finance from IE Business School, graduated from the CIA of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and has completed the Program of Senior Management of the Food Chain (ADECA) at Instituto San Telmo in Seville.
He joined Mahou San Miguel in 2002 as Supply Chain Manager. During these years, he has held various positions of responsibility within the company in the areas of Logistics, Audit, and Finance. In 2014, he became the Chief Financial Officer and was later appointed as the Managing director of Owned Distribution in January 2018. In September 2022, he was appointed as the President of the AECOC SMART DISTRIBUTION Committee.
He is responsible for defining and managing the company's own distribution model to further strengthen the Company's market leadership with value-added innovation projects.

Economist with several postgraduate degrees from Harvard University and Michigan University,
Carmelo Sanz de Barros has a long standing career of over 40 years in the financial , healthcare
and mobility sectors, working in various countries in Europe as well as in Latin America.
During this time, he has been Chairman of Becton & Dickinson for Spain and Latin America as
well as responsible for its USA Office. He has also been President of the Spanish Health
Technology Business As sociation , FENIN, belonging to CEOE, that gathers mo re than 1.600
enterprises in that sector.
President of RACE since 2011, the Spanish leading institution in the protection and public
advocacy of the road users interests on a national and international level that, since its
foundation in 1903, provides road side services and tr avel assistance to more tha n 10 million of
members and customers.
Since 2021 he is also P resident of the RACE Foundation, whose founding goals are b ased on the
study, conservation and preservation of the histor y and evolution of the automobile , the
development of mobility and road safety social awareness and campaigns , the provision of safe
driving training programs and the capacity building of public authorities and international
leaders through C I FAL Madrid RACE C entre , attached to the United Nations I nstitute for Training
and Research (UNITAR ONU).
In December 2021 he was elected President of the FIA Senate, the top ranked body of the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile , that is responsible for its general management and
corporate policy , good governance , commercial development , finance, and budgetary stability.

C40's Regional Director for Europe since 2015. Her role focuses on supporting top political decision makers in their work raising awareness on the importance of urban sustainability and developing science-based programs to fight climate change in the largest European cities. She is also responsible for the regional overviewing, coordination and engagement of C40 cities in city diplomacy work, campaigns, communications and events aimed at making the case for the role of C40 European cities in climate change fight and influencing climate decisions of supranational actors like the UN or the EC.
Before joining C40, Júlia López Ventura worked for over a decade for the city of Barcelona. She helped Barcelona develop collaborative relationships with institutions such as the European Commission and the World Bank, and she developed an international urban knowledge transfer strategy by co-leading Barcelona’s candidacy for the first European Innovation Capital (which Barcelona won).
Júlia has lectured at several universities, including the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Foundation in Barcelona, the UIMP in Santander and the IE Business School in Madrid, with courses on City Strategy and Governance.She is a fluent speaker of English, French, Spanish, Italian and Catalan and holds an MSc in Telecom engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Industrial Engineer from the UPC (Barcelona), in his first professional years he was working in consulting firms, working in the field of information technologies.
In 2006 he entered the RACC where he little by little directed his career towards the field of marketing. At that time, he completed a Marketing and Sales Master at ESADE.
Some years ago, Ricard began to feel attracted by the “EXCITING” moment that mobility is experiencing, a moment in which he joins the RACC Mobility Area, leading mobility projects. In recent years he has also been dedicated to promoting and coordinating the Mobility Institute, an initiative driven by the RACC and Deloitte.

Silvia Rojas Soto is the executive director of the Costa Rican Association of Electric Mobility ASOMOVE and president of the Latin American Association of Sustainable Mobility ALAMOS. As part of her professional training, she has a degree in Collective Communication, a degree in Law, and a master's degree in Project Management.
She worked in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, where she drafted the Law of Incentives and Promotion for Electric Transport. She also worked in the Presidency of the Republic of Costa Rica as a presidential advisor on sustainable mobility issues.
Currently from her role in civil society, she promotes zero emissions technology and promotes actions to overcome the coal era and accelerate towards a decarbonized economy.

Lola Ortiz Sánchez is since 2019 the General Director of Planning and Mobility Infrastructures at the Madrid City Council. The execution of large works related to the infrastructures for all types of mobility as well as the implementation of the new Safe, healthy, sustainable and Smart mobility plan and Madrid360 Strategy related to sustainable mobility can be found among her responsibilities.
She is official of the National Corps of Civil Engineers since 2004. She had previously other positions of responsibility in public administrations, such as General Technical Secretary, with the rank of General Director in the Andalusian Ministry of Development, Infrastructure and Planning, Deputy Director General of Urban Development in the General Directorate of European Funds of the Ministry of Finance, etc.
In addition, she is Vice President of the Spanish Road Association since 2019 and has been dean of the Madrid Demarcation of the College of Civil Engineers until March 2021 and Vice President of the Interprofessional Union of Madrid Colleges. At an international level, she is the president of the urban merchandise distribution working group of the network of cities for sustainable mobility POLIS, Executive President of the Cities Today network, executive vice-president of the Mobility Forum of the Eurocities network of cities.