Director of Environmental Quality and Circular Economy - Department for Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment. Basque Government

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• 1980-1985 Degree in Geological Sciences, University of the Basque Country. Specialisation in stratigraphy and hydrogeology.
• Postgraduate: Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering Official College of Industrial Engineers of Alava, Gipuzkoa and Navarre. Specialisation in all fields of environmental engineering, wastewater management, air and noise, waste management.
• Advanced course on landfill design. Madrid.
• Restoration of river banks using biological engineering techniques. Gernika 1999.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1985-1988 Joint work contract with the Geodynamics Department of the UPV Faculty of Geological Sciences. Research fellow.
• 1988-1989 Identification of lithological samples for different projects; geological characterisation of landfill sites. Works contract for the Department of Urban Planning, Housing and the Environment. Basque Government. Project Expert.
• 1989-1992 Interim civil servant, Department of Urbanism, Planning and the Environment. Waste Management Expert.
• 1992-1998 Career Civil Servant since 1992, Department of Urbanism, Planning and the Environment. Waste Management Expert.
• 1998-2000 Department of the Environment and Territorial Planning. Head of Hydrological and Coastal Planning.
• 2000-2008 Department of the Environment and Territorial Planning. Waste Management Manager.
• 2008-2013 Basque Water Agency. Head of Authorisations and Concessions at the Western Cantabrian Basins Office.

TEACHING

• Master’s course in Environmental Law, 1990-91, Lecture-Debate on recycling solid waste.
• Environmental engineering course, teaching the waste module in 1992-93, 1994-95 and 1995-96. COIIAGN
• Master’s course in Environmental Management, 1992-93, module on Solid Waste Treatment. COIIAGN, Donostia-San Sebastián.
• Municipal engineering course, COIIAGN Donostia-San Sebastián. Solid waste module.
• Advanced course on environmental management in industry. Mondragón Faculty of Engineering. IRAUNKOR, 1997.
• Seminar on “Current regulations on the use, consumption and recovery of polymeric materials”. Faculty of Chemistry, UPV. 96/97 and 97/98 academic years.
• Sustainability training programme for Basque towns. IVAP 2006-2007.
• Municipal implications of Law 1/2005 for prevention and contamination of soil. IVAP 2006-2007.
• Advanced course on environmental management in industry. Mondragón Faculty of Engineering. IRAUNKOR, 1997.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Symposium on the Basque coastline, 1998. Water quality networks, present and current developments.
• Conference on the use of the remainder fraction. ISR-ECR Madrid 2005.
• Biomass and organic matter in the Basque Country; ISR-CER Vitoria-Gasteiz 2006.
• Perspectives on implementing the WEEE Directive in the Basque Country. University of Cadiz, 2004.
• Development of recycling in the Basque Country. National Congress of the Spanish Recycling Federation, 2003.

PUBLICATIONS

• Inert waste plan. Basque Government Publications Service.
• The car dismantling sector in the Basque Country. Basque Government Publications Service.
• Sanitary Waste. Basque Government. Basque Government Publications Service.
• Contribution to a better understanding of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition on the northern flank of the Bizkaia Synclinorium. Kobie magazine no. 17, 1988.
• Materials from the Maastrichtian age in the Eocene series of the SW flank of the Bizkaia Synclinorium. Kobie magazine no. 18, 1989.