Angel Aparicio

CURRICULUM VITAE
Angel APARICIO MOURELO
Angel Aparicio is a Civil Engineer, graduated in 1986 from the School of Civil
Engineers of Madrid. In 1993 he received his PhD from the Polytechnic University of
Madrid.
In 1988 he became a civil servant and since then he has carried out his professional
activity in the Ministries of Public Works and Environment. He has combined these
responsibilities with teaching as part-time associate professor in the fields of transport
and urban planning at the Civil Engineering School of Madrid since 1995, and became
full-time profesor in 2003. He has written more some 40 papers in the fields of transport
planning, and urban development.
An important part of his professional activity has been devoted to international affairs.
In 1995-96 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to develop a research in the USA
on public-private systems for financing singular projects in cities. From 1998-2000 he
worked for the Economic Commission for Europe of The United Nations, as head of the
areas of planning and economy of transport and railways. He has participated in
several National and European research projects dealing with urban mobility, European
politics of transport and development of environmental indicators for the transport
sector. He is currently a member of the Advisory Group on Transport Research of the
European Commission.
In May 2004, he was in charge of the leadership of the technical team established by
the Spanish Ministry of Transport for the drafting of the National Strategic Transport
Plan (PEIT 2020), approved by the Government in July 2005.
Since September 2004, he is Director General of the Spanish Research Center in Civil
Engineering (CEDEX), a 50-year old public agency for technical studies and research,
reporting to the Spanish Ministries of Transport and Environment, with some 750
people working in the domains of transport planning, infrastructure development,
coastal engineering, water policy and management, environmental impacts of
infrastructure
plans
(www.cedex.es).
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