María Fernanda Ramírez Bernal

Safe and Sustainable Mobility Lead, Despacio

Maria is a civil engineer and a road design specialist, currently working as a Safe and Sustainable Mobility Lead at Despacio. She is also a professor at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. She has worked on road safety and active mobility projects in Colombia, Panama, Ecuador and México, applying technical civil engineering concepts through an urban planning point of view.

Maria has her master’s degree inTransportation Engineering from the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería (Colombian School of Engineering) and Master in Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati.