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Born in Madrid on 29 February 1972

Pedro Sánchez has been President of the Government of Spain since June 2018. He holds a Doctorate in Economics and is General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish acronym: PSOE), which he joined in 1993. He was also General Secretary of the PSOE, Leader of the Opposition and candidate to the Presidency of the Government between 2014 and 2016. Previously, he was a Member of the Lower House of Parliament for the constituency of Madrid and a City Councillor for Madrid.

Married with children, Pedro Sánchez completed his secondary school studies at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute in Madrid where he was a member of the Estudiantes basketball squad. In 1995, he graduated in Economic Science and Business Studies from the María Cristina Royal University College, a centre attached to the Complutense University of Madrid. He subsequently completed two postgraduate courses: a Master's Degree in EU Economics from the Free University of Brussels and a Diploma in Advanced European Economic and Monetary Integration Studies from the Ortega y Gasset University Institute.

In 2012, Pedro Sánchez received his Doctorate in Economics from Camilo José Cela University, where he lectured in economics.

Prior to becoming a university lecturer, he worked as an adviser at the European Parliament and was a member of the cabinet office of the United Nations High Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina.

Juan de Antonio is the CEO and Founder of Cabify, a leading multi-mobility company aiming at making cities more habitable. Cabify was the first company in its industry to become carbon neutral and has been a UN Global Compact member since 2018. Juan also serves as Vice-President of Endeavor Spain and President of Fundación Cabify. He majored in Telecommunications Engineering in 2002 at Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. Thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, he completed his education with an MBA in 2010 at Stanford University. Before Cabify, he worked in companies like Ericsson, BCG and Zero Motorcycles. During all these years, he strived to combine a passion for learning with a drive to have a positive impact in our environment.

About Cabify

Cabify is a multi-mobility platform for people and objects that offers various alternatives to reduce urban travel in private cars, taking advantage of technology to make cities better places to live. And, all of this, while being an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable company. Cabify, a member of the UN Global Compact, stands out for its commitment to talent and the local ecosystem, generating high-value jobs and declaring 100% of its activity in each country. In 2018 it became the first carbon neutral platform in its sector and since then it has been globally offsetting its emissions and those of its passengers, and meets an annual reduction commitment.

Cabify has been transforming the way people move around the city for 10 years, with more than 42 million registered users and 1.2 million collaborating drivers and taxi drivers. After being born in Madrid, the company spread, within a few months, to Latin America and is currently present in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.

An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the SenseableCity Lab, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovationoffice Carlo Ratti Associati. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and theÉcole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhiland PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.

A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life anddesign, Carlo has co-authored over 500 publications, including “The City ofTomorrow” (Yale University Press, with Matthew Claudel), and holds severaltechnical patents. His articles and interviews have appeared on internationalmedia including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TheWashington Post, Financial Times, Scientific American, BBC, ProjectSyndicate, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, Domus. His work has beenexhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the DesignMuseum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, MAXXI in Rome, andMoMA in New York City.

Carlo has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s ‘Best & Brightest’ list and inThames & Hudson’s selection of ‘60 innovators’ shaping our creative future.Blueprint Magazine included him as one of the ‘25 People Who Will Changethe World of Design’, Forbes listed him as one of the ‘Names You Need ToKnow’ and Fast Company named him as one of the ’50 Most Influen-tialDesigners in America’. He was also featured in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List:50 people who will change the world’. Three of his projects – the Digital WaterPavilion, the Copenhagen Wheel and Scribit – have been included by TIMEMagazine in the list of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’.

Carlo has been a presenter at TED (in 2011 and 2015), program director at theStrelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, curator of theBMW Guggenheim Pavilion in Berlin, and was named Inaugural Innovator inResidence by the Queensland Government. He was the curator of the FutureFood District pavilion for the 2015 World Expo in Milan and chief curator of the"Eyes of the City" section at the 2019 UABB Biennale of Architecture andUrbanism of Shenzhen. He is currently serving as cochair of the WorldEconomic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization.

María Luisa Domínguez González is a Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM-1993). She also holds a Law Degree from the Open National University (UNED-2006), and a Master’s in international strategic management from the UPM (2016).

Having worked for an engineering company for five years, she joined the Projects Business Unit of the Railway Infrastructure Manager (GIF) in January 1998, becoming Head of the Unit from 2001. .

In 2005, after the creation of ADIF, she became Director of High-Speed Projects, and since 2007, Director of Studies and Projects of the General Directorate of Large High-Speed Projects, responsible for preliminary studies and infrastructure and architecture projects for the new high-speed lines developed in Spain.

In 2013 she joined the ADIF-High Speed directorate as head of the Technical Coordination area.

In 2016 she returned to the field of projects, adding those of the conventional network to the high-speed ones, as well as the functional planning of the network, as Project Director.

Between 2018 and 2021 she was Strategic Planning and Projects Managing Director at ADIF, responsible for the company's strategy, the functional planning of the network, the infrastructure and architecture projects of the entire network, and international relations. Besides, the implementation of the BIM methodology in the company is being developed from her area.

Since July 2021 she is the Chairwoman of ADIF and ADIF-High Speed.

Since 2009 she has been a lecturer in the AETOS / UNED Master's Degree in Tunnels and Underground Works and teaches in different university master's degrees (UPM and its Summer University, European University of Madrid).

She is a member of the Editorial and Drafting Committee of the Public Works Magazine of the Spanish Official College of Civil Engineers.