Salvador Rueda

Position

Lecturer

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degrees in Biological Sciences and Psychology (Universitat de Barcelona)
Diplomas in Environmental Engineering and Energy Management

Biography

Salvador Rueda is director of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona. He works on different aspects of the urban environment from an integrated perspective. His professional activities include coordinating renovation and revitalisation programmes in Barcelona’s old city centre and drawing up the Sanitation Plan for Catalonia and the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Waste Management Plan. He was director of the Catalan Government’s Urban Environment Department and was a member of the European Union’s Expert Group on the Urban Environment from 1994 to 2000. As director of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona since it was set up in 2000, he has worked on a number of strategic projects aimed at reorienting cities towards a more sustainable model.