Oscar Chamat, Spain
City Representative
Oscar Chamat is a bilingual Colombian Civil Engineer and current Coordinator of Bike Trails Implantation-2ndPhase- Barcelona City. In his professional career Oscar has worked in multistakeholder urban projects with social workers, telecommunications engineers, artists and researchers in the field of creativity, among many profiles.
He also has worked on projects of different scales (small municipalities in Colombia, European projects, for the city council of Barcelona or for the Spanish state …) as well as for companies of sectors that by their activity have an important impact in the territory. At the same time, and more markedly in recent years, Oscar has focused on knowledge transfer and generation of business opportunities between Europe and Latin America in the field of cities, innovation and technology – specifically in the field of smart cities and smart buildings.
As a complement to these projects, he currently is a guest teacher in a specialization in the field of urban innovation and citizen participation. Finally, he also created an online knowledge platform in the field of urbanism for Spanish-speaking cities.
