Alfonso Martínez Cearra

Director General of Bilbao Metropoli-30. Bilbao, Spain.

Alfonso Martinez Cearra was graduated as an engineer in 1979. He was formally responsible for a number of executive positions in European manufacturing companies before being appointed as the Executive Director of Promobisa, the City of Bilbao’s economic development company, in 1989. Since 1992 is Director General of Bilbao Metropoli-30, a public-private partnership set up to revitalize metropolitan Bilbao, and Director of the magazine Metropoli-30. He is Vice-Chairman of the British-Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Bilbao and The SPIN-Spain (Software Process Improvement Network). AMC represents Bilbao Metropoli-30 in the Bilbao Convention Bureau (BiCB) and in the Association for Benchmarking Implementation (AiB) as Member of the Board, as well as in Uniport Bilbao. He is an active member of The Internet Society, The System Dynamics Society, The World Future Society, ICMA, Club Financiero de Bilbao, Chamber of Commerce of Bilbao, The International Network for Urban Development, Strategic Management Society and The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN@large). He is a permanent professor in the cities' strategic development academic program organized by Bilbao Metropoli-30.