Martín FERNÁNDEZ-PRADO

Chairman at Port Authority of A Coruña. Professor of Urbanism, Department of Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, University of A Coruña. A Coruña, Spain.

Ph.D. in Architecture. Postgraduate studies in Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). GSD MAUD-95 at Harvard University. Chairman at the Port Authority of A Coruña (from December 2020). Professor of Urbanism at the School of Architecture in University of A Coruña, (from 1998). General Manager of Urbanism and Land Ordinance at Galician Goverment (2003-2005). Councillor of Urbanism at A Coruña City Council (2011-2020). Member of the Galician Parliament (2016-2020), presiding the Special Road Safety Commission and spokesperson as to Universities, Urbanism, Land and Infrastructure. He has had an intense research activity, publishing and authoring several papers and books on urban agenda, city policies, urbanism and the Port of A Coruña. Since presiding the Port Authority of A Coruña, he has granted NextGen financing for the development of the railway conection to the Outer Port, and has launched a whole new vision of the Port of A Coruña with the Green Port Project.