Javier Garrido is a Civil, Canal and Port Engineer from the Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech). He has a double degree with the École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris, a higher school specialized in transport and in the socioeconomic evaluation of transport infrastructure. He has collaborated in the execution of the Transport Infrastructure Assessment System (SAIT) of the Government of Catalonia.

Currently, he is a researcher at CENIT, Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, and he is doing a PhD in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona on the future of ports: Port Vision 2040. He collaborates with the Department of Strategy and Innovation to define the strategic lines of the Port of Barcelona for 2040 with the aim of guaranteeing the social, economic and environmental sustainability of port actions.