Maruxa Cardama

Brussels

Maruxa co-founded Communitas, a coalition for sustainable cities and regions in the new UN Development Agenda. Earlier, she ran nrg4SD, an international organisation of subnational governments promoting sustainable communities, and co-facilitated the engagement of subnational and local authorities in the UN Rio +20 Conference. Previously, she was Deputy Director at the representation of the South West of England to the EU, where she led on the sustainability portfolio for a partnership of regional authorities, academics, and the private sector. Before that, she started her career at the EU representation of the Spanish region of Galicia and the EU Committee of the Regions. Maruxa has worked as Expert on Governance and Public Administration Reform for the Government of Romania and The British Council. She has also lectured in capacity building programmes on EU sustainability policy and funding. In all, Maruxa has 12 years of experience on strategic policy analysis and advocacy, international partnerships, capacity building, and multi-level governance in the field of sustainable development at the international, national and subnational levels. Maruxa’s detailed profile is available at be.linkedin.com/pub/maruxa-cardama/3/73b/b74/