Carles RÚA COSTA

Head of Innovation, Port of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.

Carles Rúa Costa is an Industrial Engineer by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech). He is the Head of Innovation at the Port Authority of Barcelona (Port de Barcelona). He is also director of the Master Executive in Lean Supply Chain Management (BarcelonaTech), teacher of the Escola Europea of Intermodal Transport and co-editor of the port focused innovation blog PierNext. His professional activity has been developed in the fields of strategy logistics, quality and management information systems, where he has acted as a free lance engineer and for consultancy companies. In the university field he has been professor at the Department of Business Organization at BarcelonaTech for more than 25 years. He also teaches logistics and port management in some masters in Spain and South America.