Metro de Madrid appoints Antonio López Porto as new general secretary

The Board of Directors of Metro de Madrid, S. A. has appointed Antonio López Porto as secretary general of the public company, according to the agreement adopted at its meeting on September 9, 2026. The appointment is formalized through the announcement of September 22, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (B.O.C.M. no. 228, of September 24, 2026, page 79), within the Authorities and Personnel section. The document appears with the official reference BOCM-20260924-9.

The announcement is inserted under the heading of the Ministry of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure, the department upon which the public company depends, and in section B) Authorities and Personnel of the gazette’s summary. It is, therefore, a discretionary appointment adopted by the company’s highest governing body and not a public job call.

Metro de Madrid, S. A. is the regional government-owned public limited company that operates the metropolitan railway network of the region. In its own procurement calls published in the same gazette, it appears with NIF A28001352, address at avenida de Asturias number 4, 28029 Madrid, and is defined as a contracting entity with special or exclusive rights whose main activity is urban railway, tram, trolleybus, or bus services.

The board of directors’ agreement

The appointment is based on the agreement of the company’s governing body, the essential details of which are as follows:

• Decision-making body: Board of Directors of Metro de Madrid, S. A.
• Meeting date: September 9, 2026
• Appointed person: Antonio López Porto
• Position: secretary general of Metro de Madrid, S. A.
• Announcement date: September 22, 2026
• Publication: B.O.C.M. no. 228, of September 24, 2026, page 79

The official text is limited to recording the corporate agreement and the identity of the appointee, without detailing the remuneration scheme or the date of taking office, details which do not appear in the announcement.

Processing and signing of the announcement

The announcement of September 22, 2026, was signed in Madrid by the head of the company’s Human Resources Division, Virginia Navarro Ortega, and is identified with the gazette’s internal reference (01/15.337/26). The publication in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid provides the appointment with the official publicity required for the acts of regional public companies.

The insertion occurs in Section I, relating to the Community of Madrid, and within it in the Authorities and Personnel block, the same space where the company disseminates its tenders, awards, and contract formalizations. In the dates immediately prior, Metro de Madrid, S. A. had published in that same section the call for tenders for the repair service of Series 3000 reducers (file 6012600247) and that for the Reprography Center service (file 6012600245), among other files.

A key piece in the company’s leadership

The General Secretariat is a direct support body for the company’s management, with functions of legal advice, secretariat for the governing bodies, and administrative coordination. Its head is therefore part of the management core of the main public transport operator of the Community of Madrid, a company that manages a network of more than three hundred stations and maintains intense contractual activity published weekly in the bulletin.

The appointment also comes in a context of network expansion, with actions such as the expansion works to the Valdebebas neighborhood, whose project management and technical assistance contracts have been tendered in recent months through the Ministry of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure.

For readers, the relevance of the announcement lies in that it allows for the tracking of movements in the senior management of a public company that provides an essential service to millions of users and channels a significant volume of public procurement in the region. The designation of Antonio López Porto as general secretary thus completes the management team of Metro de Madrid, S. A., whose Board of Directors will continue to adopt its personnel agreements with subsequent publication in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid.

Source: Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, no. 228, of September 24, 2026, section I.B) Authorities and Personnel, page 79 (official reference: BOCM-20260924-9).