WiM MoveUp Wim Wien Let's have coffee with... Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

Dear Women in Mobility Community,

"Let's have coffee with..." goes international!

We are happy to announce our first international guest, the wonderful Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, urban planner, and gender expert from Madrid. She is UNESCO Chair for Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation, professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, member of AGGI, the advisory group for gender issues at UN-Habitat and and and... We are looking forward to an exciting discussion!

About the person:

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga is a leading international expert on gender in city planning, architecture, and STEM with extensive experience in both public policy and research. She is UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation and Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She is a member of AGGI, the Advisory Group on Gender Issues to UN-Habitat’s Executive Director. She is also a member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the Spanish UN-Sustainable Solutions Development Network and co-Chair of the General Assembly of Partners Research and Academia Group of the New Urban Agenda.

She has been Chair of the international COST network Gender, Science, Technology and Environment, gender STE; co-Director of the EU-US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment. Member of the European Commission Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation. As Chair of the EC Expert Group on Structural Change of Research Organizations, she played a key role in the negotiations to introduce gender as a central element of the EC research program Horizon 2020. She is/has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committees of the European projects Genport, Genovate, RRITools, Libra, Sagerip, GEDII, and PI of the EC FP7 projects Gender-Net and TRIGGER.

She is an EC Urbact expert and a member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO global project to promote gender in science SAGA. She has held public office in Spain as Deputy Director-General for Architecture, Advisor to the Minister of Housing, Advisor to the Minister of Science and Innovation, Director of the Women and Science Unit at the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Research, Technology and Development.

We look forward to an exciting discussion at the next coffee break session!

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