Inés Sánchez de Madariaga is UNESCO Chair on Gender in STI and Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University GSD, MIT, UCLA, the Bauhaus, LSE, and Columbia University, as well as a Fulbright and a Real Colegio Complutense-UPM Fellow. She is a leading international expert on gender in transportation, urban planning, architecture and STEM, with extensive experience spanning public office, policy, practice, and research. Author of over 100 articles in professional journals and a dozen books, including: Fair Shared Cities, 2013, and Engendering Cities, Routledge 2020. She is Chair of the Advisory Group on Gender Issues to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. In 2021 she received the Matilde Ucelay Award in recognition for her professional trajectory granted by the Spanish Government.