Kingdom of SpainFCC appoints Pastor as Director of Comms

FCC has appointed Julio Pastor as director of communications and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Until now, Pastor was director of news relations for FCC and replaces José Manuel Velasco who left the company at the end of last January. 

He will directly report to the vice-chairman and CEO, Juan Béjar, and will be a member of all of the Business Committees of the Citizen Services Group.

Pastor is from Madrid has a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and carried out his Post-graduate studies in the Sorbonne University of Paris and the Inter-American Press Society in Miami (U.S.). In 2003 he won the Schroders Award for Economic and Financial Journalism in his capacity of director of content at Invertia.com, the economy, finance and markets portal of Terra and Telefónica.

With more than 25 years' experience in the world of journalism and communications, Pastor has had an outstanding international career to date. In 1995 Tele 5 sent him to New York to report on the trading session from Wall Street in "Noticias y Negocios", a daily programme directed by Carlos Humanes. Two years later he went to Chile where, for three years, he was chief editor of América Economía, a leading Economy and Finance magazine in that region. Lastly, he lived in Paris where he carried out work as a correspondent and communications consultant between 2007 and 2010 before joining FCC.

In the field of communications, Pastor has also held the post of director of news relations and international communications coordinator at Unión Fenosa and consultant at ING France, while he has also worked in all formats of journalism: agencies (OTR/PRESS), daily press (El Boletín), weekly press (Tribuna magazine), radio (Antena 3), television (Tele 5) and internet (Invertia.com). 

The FCC Citizen Services company is a leader in environmental services and infrastructure development. It was created in 1992 from the merger of the Construcciones y Contratas and Fomento de Obras y Construcciones companies.

With approximately 90,000 employees, the group is active in some 50 countries. With over a century of experience, FCC Citizen Services has been the instigator of major infrastructures around the world, including high-speed trains and subways in New Delhi, Singapore, Madrid, Barcelona, Toronto, a weighbridge in Barcelona, a floating dock in Monaco, the Guadarrama tunnel in Madrid, Santiago airport in Chile and so on.

2015
Director of Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility
2010
Director of News Relations
2007
Correspondent and Communications Consultant