Carlos Mataix

Carlos Mataix is a full professor in the Department of Organizational Engineering, Business Administration and Statistics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Director of the Center for Innovation in Technologies for Human Development of the same university (itdUPM).

At the university, he has always been interested in strengthening its relationship with society, having been deputy director of students and university extension of the School of Industrial Engineering at the UPM.

In public administration, he joined the Director’s office of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in 2008, with the aim of setting up the Planning and Quality Unit, and has continued since then as an expert advisor to the cooperation council.

In the third sector, he was co-founder of Engineering Without Borders (Ingeniería Sin Fronteras) and vice-president of the Spanish Platform of NGOs for Development. He also participated as advisor and consultant in several Spanish and international social organizations.

In the private business sector, he is the director of company chairs, member of the Iberdrola board of stakeholders, and director of business foundations, such as Fundación Carasso, Cotec or the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS).

His work today focuses on the design and management of organizational contexts that stimulate collaboration between organizations and knowledge. He believes that the socio-technical transformation processes to which the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) invites us require new organizational infrastructures based on networks and partnerships. And the public university is called to be an essential actor in this process.