Garbiñe Manterola Agirrezabalaga graduated in Environmental Science (2002) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a PhD in Applied Physics from Navarra University (2009) and a Master’s Degree in Science and Innovation Management from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2021). During her professional career, she has worked as a researcher in the business and academic worlds. Her research has focused on environmental technologies, specifically the advanced treatment of wastewater and resource recovery.
She is currently in charge of transfer at BRTA (Basque Research & Technology Alliance). Her work focuses on boosting and streamlining the conditions to pass on the knowledge generated in the partnership centres to companies to contribute to their competitiveness. Garbiñe Manterola has been a member of the European Sustainable Finance Platform, more specifically the technical working group, since October 2022.