Communication Network- Nº24 - page 33

We face the future
with confidence. The water sector
is a solid one and our group gives us all
of its support since the water management
business has become of
FCC’s strategic lines
Passion for water
Born in Madrid in 1955, Félix Parra has a degree in
Geology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(UCM) and an MBA from Instituto de Empresa de
Madrid.
Married with two children, he is a great enthusiast of
the countryside and of outdoor activities.
Experience
He started to work when he was 24 years old at
Geoservices, an oil exploration services company
and was involved in field work in countries in Latin
America, North Africa, and Europe. In Caracas, he
worked as the manager of the company’s Venezue-
lan subsidiary and, lastly in Paris, he was the mana-
ger of the Central and Eastern Europe regions.
In 1993, he joined Grupo General de Aguas in Spain
(currently Veolia) as the deputy regional manager in
Andalusia, then as manager of Development and,
lastly, as the manager of the Central Zone as of
1998. Starting in 2000 he worked as the manager
of Aqualia’s Central Zone where he was in charge of
the company’s business in the autonomous commu-
nities of Aragón, Castile and León, Madrid, Castile
La Mancha, Murcia, Valencia and the Canary Islands.
Currently
In 2013, he was appointed Managing Director of
FCC Aqualia, a company specialising in manage-
ment of the end-to-end water cycle. According to the
magazine Global Water Intelligence, Aqualia is lea-
ding Spanish company in this sector, the third among
European companies, and the sixth one worldwide.
The objective of FCC Aqualia is to provide efficient
and innovative management services, close to the
public, essential for the development of cities nation-
wide and internationally.
emissions of CO
2
and, as such, we are the
first Spanish company to calculate and ve-
rify the Carbon Footprint in the end-to-end
water management cycle, in this case in
Lleida. In addition, we recently signed an
agreement with Fundación Botín for the first
study to calculate the Water Footprint.
Any thoughts you want to share with
your team?
I am pleased when I see that people who
work with me grow professionally within the
company.
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