Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada

Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada (born 1975) is a Spanish engineer. She was the first woman to be president of the state-owned railway company Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF) from 2018 to 2021 and was Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing from 2021 to 2023.

Personal life Pardo de Vera was born in Lugo, Galicia. Her father was the first democratically elected mayor of Becerreá in the Province of Lugo for the People's Alliance and her sister Ana became a journalist.

Education Pardo de Vera finished her studies in road, canal and port engineering at University of A Coruña in July 2001.

Career Pardo de Vera began working in 2007 for Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), the state-owned railway company. She had positions in the management of the Madrid–Galicia high-speed rail line. In 2015, she took leave from ADIF to be Director of Mobility and Infrastructure for the provincial deputation of the Province of Pontevedra, returning in 2016. In June 2018, Pardo de Vera became the first woman to be president of ADIF. In July 2018, she was named Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing in the government of Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Awards

Monforte Railway Award (2018) Gold Medal of the City of Vigo (2022)