The Government Council has given the green light to the appointment of Ricardo Ruiz Antúnez as the new general director of Hydraulic Public Domain of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development.
According to the Junta in a note, Ricardo Ruiz Antúnez was born in Motril (Granada) in 1972, is a Civil Engineer from the University of Granada (UGR) and has a Master's in Environmental Impact Assessment from the Institute of Ecological Research of Andalusia. He began his professional career in the private sector, participating in the execution and development of hydraulic, road, and port infrastructures, acquiring solid technical experience in the field of public works.
In 2003 he joined the Superior Body of Civil Engineers of Roads, Canals, and Ports of the Junta de Andalucía, developing since then his career, fundamentally linked to the planning, management, and operation of hydraulic infrastructures and water resources.
In his career, he has held various technical and managerial responsibilities in this area. In his early years as a civil servant, he took on the leadership of the Hydraulic Works Department in the Provincial Delegation of Seville.
Subsequently, in 2008 he was appointed director of the Guadalhorce-Limonero Exploitation System, in the Territorial Delegation of Málaga, a responsibility from which he participated in the management and operation of strategic hydraulic infrastructures for the guarantee of water resources.
In 2019 he joined the General Directorate of Water Resources as deputy director of Planning, a stage in which the approval of the current hydrological plans of the intracommunity hydrographic demarcations of Andalusia was completed, an essential instrument for the sustainable planning and management of water.
In 2024 he returned to Málaga to assume the Water Commissioner of the Mediterranean Basins, a position he has held to date, consolidating a professional career characterized by his specialization in hydraulic matters, his experience in the management of water resources, and his knowledge of the main instruments for planning and administration of water in Andalusia.