Ines Sanchez de Madariaga

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga is currently a Visting Sholar at Harvard University, and a Fellow Harvard Real Colegio Complutense-UPM. She is UNESCO Chair on Gender in Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Chair of AGGI 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, architecture, and STEM, with extensive experience in policy, practice, and research. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Spanish UN-Sustainable Solutions Development Network and a Member of the Board of Directors of Plan International. She has been Chair of the international COST network Gender, Science, Technology and Environment and co-Director of the EU-US Gendered Innovations Project. As member of the European Commission Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Chair the EC Expert Group on Structural Change, she led the negotiations to introduce gender as a central element of the EC research program Horizon2020. She has been PI of over 60 research projects, funded by international organizations, national, regional and local governments. She has held public office as Deputy Director General for Architecture, Advisor to the Minister of Housing, Advisor to the Minister of Science, Director of the Women and Science Unit at the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Research. In those capacities she led the processes to introduce articles addressing gender and women’s issues in the built environment in key pieces of Spanish legislation: the Spanish Equality Law and the Land-use Law of 2007, and the Law of Science of 2011. She also introduced pioneering avant-la-lettre programs to promote gender equality in the architectural, planning, and scientific fields in the early 2000’s. A former Fulbright grantee, she has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard, MIT, UCLA, the Bauhaus-Weimar, London School of Economics, and Columbia University. She is author of over 100 articles and author of a dozen books, among which: Engendering Cities: Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for All, Routledge, 2020, and Fair Shared Cities, The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe, 2013. She has lectured at prestigious universities and public institutions in 40 countries. In 2021 she received the Matilde Ucelay Prize in recognition for her personal trajectory in promoting gender equality in transportation, mobility, and urban planning, awarded by the Spanish Government.