Isabel Pardo de Vera explained

Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada
Office:Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing
Term Start:28 July 2021
Term End:22 February 2023
Primeminister:Pedro Sánchez
Predecessor:Pedro Saura García
Successor:Francisco David Lucas Parrón

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

Pardo de Vera was born in Lugo, Galicia. Her father 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

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

Career

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.[4]

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).[4]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada . . 21 February 2023 . Spanish . 7 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230207055203/https://www.mitma.gob.es/el-ministerio/biografia-de-altos-cargos/isabel-pardo . live .
  2. News: Martínez . Juan Carlos . El vertiginoso ascenso de las ‘aristócratas’ Pardo de Vera con el PSOE . The dizzying rise of the Pardo de Vera 'aristocrats' with the PSOE . 21 February 2023 . . 3 July 2018 . Spanish . 26 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190226234210/https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/business/ascenso-aristocratas-pardo-vera_152726_102.html . live .
  3. Web site: 7 November 2022 . Quién es quién en la economía española 2022. Who's who in the Spanish economy 2022 . 2023-02-23 . Expansión . es . 24 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221124061113/https://www.expansion.com/empresas/directorio-empresas-directivos-preview.html . live .
  4. News: 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 . 21 February 2023 . Murcia.com . 27 July 2021 . Spanish . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520040902/https://www.murcia.com/nacional/noticias/2021/07/27-el-consejo-de-ministros-nombra-a-isabel-pardo-de-vera-nueva-secretaria-de-estado-de-transportes--mov.asp . live .
  5. News: Isabel Pardo, nueva presidenta de Adif . Isabel Pardo, new president of ADIF . 21 February 2023 . . Renta 4 . 28 June 2018 . Spanish . 23 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230223035415/https://www.r4.com/analisis-actualidad/-isabel-pardo-nueva-presidenta-de-adif . live .
  6. News: Symons . Angela . ‘Unspeakable botch’: Spain spends €258 million on trains that are too big for its tunnels . 21 February 2023 . . 21 February 2023 . 23 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230223035431/https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/02/21/unspeakable-botch-spain-spends-258-million-on-trains-that-are-too-big-for-its-tunnels . live .
  7. News: Spender . Tom . 21 February 2023 . Spain officials quit over trains that were too wide for tunnels . BBC News . 23 February 2022.
  8. Web site: 13 April 2018 . Isabel Pardo de Vera, premio Monforte al Ferrocarril de este año. Isabel Pardo de Vera, this year's Monforte Railway Award . 23 February 2022 . . es . 23 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230223035354/https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/lemos/2018/04/13/isabel-pardo-vera-premio-monforte-ferrocarril-ano/0003_201804M13C3992.htm . live .
  9. News: Villar . Alba . 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 . 21 February 2023 . . 14 October 2022 . Spanish . 26 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221026235122/https://www.farodevigo.es/fotos/gran-vigo/2022/10/14/isabel-pardo-vera-recibe-medalla-77257135.html . live .

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