Iñaki Azkuna | |
Office: | Mayor of Bilbao |
Term Start: | July 4, 1999 |
Term End: | March 20, 2014 |
Predecessor: | Josu Ortuondo |
Successor: | Ibon Areso |
Birthname: | Iñaki Azkuna Urreta |
Birth Date: | 14 February 1943 |
Birth Place: | Durango, Spain |
Death Place: | Bilbao, Spain |
Party: | Basque Nationalist Party |
Iñaki Azkuna Urreta (14 February 1943 – 20 March 2014) was a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party. He was mayor of the city of Bilbao, Biscay in the Basque Country, from 1999 until his death. In 2012, Azkuna won the World Mayor Prize, honoring the most outstanding mayors in the world, for his transformation of industrial Bilbao into a cultural centre.[1] [2] [3]
Azkuna died from prostate cancer on 20 March 2014 in Bilbao, Biscay. He was 71 years old.[4]