Marcos Ros is a doctor of architecture and a member of the European Parliament, in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. He is a full member of the Regional Development Commission and an alternate member of the Culture and Education Commission.
Born in Murcia in 1974, he graduated as an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, and received his PhD from the University of Madrid in 2005. He has practiced the profession of architect until 2011, combining it with other jobs as an architect of the Office of Housing Management and Rehabilitation of Cartagena and director of the Façade Plan of the Historic Center of Cartagena.
Since 2008 he has been a professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture and Building of Cartagena, where he also works as a researcher. Between 2016 and 2019 he held the position of Vice-Chancellor for Campus and Sustainability at the University of Cartagena.
As part of his activity as an MEP, Marcos works very actively in the New European Bauhaus within the European Parliament, in the reform process in the management of Cohesion Policy and the approach to the housing crisis.
His professional and political career is closely linked to architecture, heritage, urban planning, teaching and research.
He is a professor on leave of urban planning at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Cartagena. In this faculty he directed a research group on urban planning, from where he has participated in several collaboration agreements for the review of the planning of municipalities in the region.
Marcos also has extensive experience in restoration and rehabilitation of historical heritage buildings. In 2015 he was awarded an Architecture Award from the Region of Murcia for the development of the Comprehensive Facade Rehabilitation Plan of Cartagena.