Carlos Murgui Maties

Carlos Murgui Maties

Transport Specialist and Climate Change Focal Point for the World Bank

Carlos Murgui is a Transport Specialist and Climate Change Focal Point for the World Bank with more than ten years of technical and operational experience working on the transport agenda in LAC. He has been involved in the preparation and implementation of projects and ASAs in multiple areas, such as resilient infrastructure, rural roads, urban mobility, waterway connectivity, PPPs, road safety, and drones. As Climate Change Focal Point he has been guiding the Transport Practice in achieving its adaptation and mitigation goals. To highlight some of the lending operations he has been involved: the National Urban Transport Program Project in Colombia's major cities, the Waterway and WSS Project in Colombia’s Pacific Region - a fragile and post-conflict area the Bogota Metro Line 1, the PPP Program in Panama, the Urban and Rural Access Improvement Project Nicaragua, the Transport Resilient Infrastructure Project in El Salvador and the Resilient Rural Connectivity Project in Guatemala. He is an environmental and rural construction engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia with a Master's in international business management in Madrid. Before joining the Bank, he worked as a Foreign Trade Advisor for the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Mexico and as an environmental engineer implementing European Programs on renewable energies and hydrogen fuel cells.