With a degree in architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, Miguel Hernández is a senior member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).

He currently serves as director of the Strategy and Corporate Development area for CREA MADRID NUEVO NORTE, a company he joined in 2015 when Madrid Nuevo Norte, Europe’s most important urban development project, was launched.

Over the course of his career, he has served as chair of URBAN LAND INSTITUTE and headed AGUIRRE NEWMAN, a real estate consulting firm he managed for over eight years. He has also contributed to major urban projects with multidisciplinary teams, aided by his two-fold technical/financial training. He has worked on projects like 22@ in Barcelona; Cais Mauá do Brasil, in Porto Alegre; the regeneration of the Tiexi district in Shenyang (China), as an EU expert; the Nueva Centralidad de Arica in Chile; and the Desarrollos Urbanos Integrales Sustentables in Mexico, contributing to the latter two on behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank.