Moneyba González Medina

Professor and researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She is a member of the Institute of Local Law (IDL-UAM) and the Innovation, Technology and Public Management Research Group (IT_GesPub). She is also a collaborating researcher of the Thematic Network on Sustainable Urban Development (URBAN RED).

Doctorate in Political Science and Administration (European mention) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), she has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environment of the University of the West of England, UWE-Bristol (UK), postdoctoral at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and predoctoral at the Universität Konstanz (Germany). She has also worked at the Research, Evaluation and Quality Unit of the Galician School of Public Administration and at the Galician Industrial Property Service of the Xunta de Galicia.

She has collaborated in several publications and research projects on urban governance, local public policies and sustainable urban development from a comparative perspective, and published in international journals such as European Urban and Regional Studies or European Planning Studies.

She is an expert in public policy analysis and her research is framed in the field of local governance, public policies for urban development, strategic planning of cities, urban Europeanization and modernization of public administration.