Pere Navarro Olivella

Pere Navarro Olivella (Barcelona, 25 May 1952) is a Spanish civil servant and politician who serves as Director-General for Traffic since June 2018. Navarro also served at this position from 2004 to 2012.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Navarro and the second or maternal family name is Olivella.
Pere Navarro Olivella
Pere Navarro in 2010
11th and 15th Director-General for Traffic
Assumed office
30 June 2018
Preceded byGregorio Serrano López
In office
8 May 2004 – 4 February 2012
Preceded byCarlos Muñoz-Repiso
Succeeded byMaría Seguí Gómez
Civil Governor of Girona
In office
1985–1996
Personal details
Born
Pere Navarro Olivella

(1952-05-25) 25 May 1952
Barcelona, Spain
Political partyPSC-Socialist Party
Alma materSchool of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona

Biography

Navarro is an industrial engineer graduated in 1974 by the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona. A year later, he obtained a diploma in Business Administration by the EAE Business School. In 1977 he entered by public contest in the Superior Corps of Labour and Social Security Inspectors. He is married and has two daughters.

Later, he was appointed delegate of the Ministry of Labour of the Regional Government of Catalonia in Girona (1979-1983) and in 1983 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Civil Governor of Barcelona until 1985, when he was appointed Civil Governor of Gerona. Navarro left the office of civil governor in 1996 and he was appointed Team Leader of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate in the Province of Barcelona (1996-1999). Between 1999 and 2004 Navarro worked in the City Council of Barcelona, first as Director of the Transport and Circulation Service and then as Commissioner for Mobility, Transport and Circulation.[1]

Director-General for Traffic (First term, 2004–2012)

After the arrival to power of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero he was appointed Director-General for Traffic and he served during the two Zapatero's terms with three different Interior Ministers. He briefly served under Mariano Rajoy but he was replaced in February 2012 by María Seguí Gómez. He was one of the last senior officials appointed by Zapatero to be replaced.[2]

His term as head of the Directorate-General for Traffic is generally accepted as positive, including among his milestones the implementation of the driving license's points system and the reduction of traffic accidents by a 65% (when Navarro assumed office the number of deaths by traffic accidents was 5.399, when he left was 1.903).[3] In 2009 he was awarded the "Best Engineer of the Year" by the Official College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid (COIIM).[4]

After leaving the office of Director-General, he was assigned to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, where he served as Advisor for Labour and Social Security affairs.[5] He left this position in 2016, and he retired from public service, taking care of his two grandchildren and practising sailing.[6]

Director-General for Traffic (Second term, 2018–)

In 2018, the new Minister of Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, appointed him as Director-General for Traffic.[3]

References
  1. "Pere Navarro Olivella". transparencia.gob.es. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  2. Díez, Anabel; Blanco, Patricia R. (2012-02-02). "María Seguí sustituye a Pere Navarro al frente de la DGT". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  3. Águeda, Pedro. "Vuelve a la DGT Pere Navarro, el director de Tráfico que redujo la mortalidad en las carreteras un 65%". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  4. Europapress (18 June 2009). "Pere Navarro, elegido Ingeniero Industrial del Año por el COIIM". Europapress. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  5. Press, Europa (2019-09-04). "El director general de la DGT será el próximo invitado del Foro Ibercaja". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  6. "Pere Navarro: «Se puede limitar la conducción de la gente mayor a un radio de 30 km»". abc (in Spanish). 2017-05-27. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
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