Ms. Maruxa Cardama
Secretary General, Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
Ms. Maruxa Cardama is the Secretary General of the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport. Over her 16-year career, she has worked with multilateral institutions, national, regional and local governments, NGOs and philanthropy in 33 countries across continents to develop public policies, capacity and implementation projects, and multi-stakeholder partnerships that advance sustainability and equitable prosperity. Ms. Cardama is known to many SLoCaT members as the founder of the Communitas Coalition, the multi-stakeholder coalition which pioneered knowledge-based advocacy for the Sustainable Development Goal on Cities and Human Settlements (SDG 11). Ms. Cardama also served as the Secretary General for the Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (nrg4SD), and during her tenure co-facilitated the engagement of local and regional governments in the UN Rio +20 Conference. She has held posts in the Cities Alliance (hosted by the UN Office for Project Services UNOPS), as well as in local and regional government in Spain and in the UK. Prolific public speaker and analyst, Maruxa is member of the Urban Knowledge-Action Network of Future Earth. In recent years, she has served in the Expert Panel on the urban science-policy interface of the University Colleague London UCL-Nature Sustainability and as Adviser on Global Agendas to the Conference of European Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe CPMR. Her formal training was as a lawyer, as well as in EU law and in development economics.