Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

After completing her postgraduate studies with a Fulbright scholarship at Colombia University, New York, she has been a visiting lecturer at Colombia University, London School of Economics, and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. She has been an expert advisor to several Spanish and European institutions: from 2005 to 2007 she was executive advisor and deputy-director general for Architecture in the Ministry for Housing; from 2009 to 2011, she was director of the Women and Science Unit of the Spanish Minister’s Office for Science and Innovation; and, from 2012 to 2014, director of Research, Development and Innovation in the Spanish Minister’s Office for Economy and Competitiveness. She has also been a member of the European Commission’s Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (2009 – 2014). Since 2012 she has been president of the genderSTE (gender, science, technology and environment) group of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) network.