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Isabel Pardo de Vera

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Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada
Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing
In office
28 July 2021 – 22 February 2023
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byPedro Saura García
Succeeded byFrancisco David Lucas Parrón
Personal details
Born1975 (age 48–49)

Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada (born 1975)[1] is a Spanish engineer. She was the first woman to be president of the state-owned railway company Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF) from 2018 to 2021 and was Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing from 2021 to 2023.

Personal life

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Pardo de Vera was born in Lugo, Galicia. Her father Gerardo Pardo de Vera [gl] was the first democratically elected mayor of Becerreá in the Province of Lugo for the People's Alliance and her sister Ana became a journalist.[2]

Education

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Pardo de Vera finished her studies in road, canal and port engineering at University of A Coruña in July 2001.[3] She completed an MBA from the Instituto de Educación Superior Intercontinental de la Empresa in 2007 graduated from ESADE Business School in 2009.[4]

Career

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Pardo de Vera began working in 2007 for Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), the state-owned railway company. She had positions in the management of the Madrid–Galicia high-speed rail line. In 2015, she took leave from ADIF to be Director of Mobility and Infrastructure for the provincial deputation of the Province of Pontevedra, returning in 2016.[3]

In June 2018, Pardo de Vera became the first woman to be president of ADIF.[5] In July 2018, she was named Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing in the government of Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).[3]

Pardo de Vera resigned on 20 February 2023, as did Isaías Tabóas, the president of state railway operator Renfe. The trigger event for the resignations was the €258 million order of 31 trains for the mountainous northern autonomous communities of Asturias and Cantabria. The trains were ordered with dimensions too wide for the regions' tunnels; though these trains were not manufactured, the error put their estimated completion date back from 2024 to at least 2026.[6][7]

Awards

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  • Monforte Railway Award (2018)[8]
  • Gold Medal of the City of Vigo (2022)[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada" (in Spanish). Ministry of Development. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  2. ^ Martínez, Juan Carlos (3 July 2018). "El vertiginoso ascenso de las 'aristócratas' Pardo de Vera con el PSOE" [The dizzying rise of the Pardo de Vera 'aristocrats' with the PSOE]. El Español (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "El Consejo de Ministros nombra a Isabel Pardo de Vera nueva secretaria de Estado de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana" [Council of Ministers names Isabel Pardo de Vera new Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda] (in Spanish). Murcia.com. 27 July 2021. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Quién es quién en la economía española 2022" [Who's who in the Spanish economy 2022]. Expansión (in Spanish). 7 November 2022. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  5. ^ "Isabel Pardo, nueva presidenta de Adif" [Isabel Pardo, new president of ADIF] (in Spanish). Renta 4. Europa Press. 28 June 2018. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  6. ^ Symons, Angela (21 February 2023). "'Unspeakable botch': Spain spends €258 million on trains that are too big for its tunnels". Euronews. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  7. ^ Spender, Tom (21 February 2023). "Spain officials quit over trains that were too wide for tunnels". BBC News. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Isabel Pardo de Vera, premio Monforte al Ferrocarril de este año" [Isabel Pardo de Vera, this year's Monforte Railway Award]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 13 April 2018. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  9. ^ Villar, Alba (14 October 2022). "Isabel Pardo de Vera recibe la Medalla de Oro de la Ciudad de Vigo" [Isabel Pardo de Vera receives the Gold Medal of the City of Vigo]. Faro de Vigo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2023.