The recently appointed executive director of the new National Institute of Transit & Transport (Intrant), Claudia Franchesca de los Santos is a civil engineer who has been working at the Ministry of Public Works since 1992 when she entered as a calculations clerk. She graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (Intec) engineering school in 1996. She had served as deputy minister at the Ministry of Public Works since 1996.
De los Santos’ profile on LinkedIn indicates she is has been the owner of Constructora SAGO since 2011 and manager of GS Inmobiliaria.
Her profile on the Intec university website indicates that from 1996 to 2000, while serving as deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Works, she was general manager of the project for the modernization of transit in Santo Domingo and Santiago; the construction of tunnels and overpasses of the 27 de Febrero, John F. Kennedy, Las Americas and Estrella Sadhala avenues, as well as the drainage tunnel of the Núnez de Cáceres Avenue.
She served as spokesperson to the press for the Ministry of Public Works for several construction projects nationwide.
She was responsible for the completion of the budget of the UASD university library. In 2006 she was project manager for the installations of the National Games in Yamasá and in 2007 for the Central Park in Santiago.
De los Santos has been in charge of commissions responsible for preparing and updating construction rules in the country, seismological analysis and design of structures, fire, vertical circulation, wood and metallic structures, among other duties. She has served as advisor for instruction of the General Agency for Border Development, and has been in charge of the sub-commission of transport and infrastructure for the Dominican-Haitian Bilateral Commission.
She also served as president of the board of directors of the Dominican Postal Institute, member of the board of Intec and vice president of the alumni association of Intec.
She has also been director and editor of Construexpo magazine and has worked in several private construction projects.
Intrant consolidates 14 Dominican government entities that deal with transit and transport. De los Santos is responsible for implementing Law 63-17 on Mobility, Ground Transport, Transit and Road Safety. The new law consolidates into the Intrant the following offices:
Oficina Técnica del Transporte Terrestre (OTTT), Dirección General de Tránsito Terrestre (DGTT), Consejo para la Administración y Regulación de Taxis (CART), Caja de Pensiones y Jubilaciones para los Choferes del Transporte Público, Fondo de Desarrollo del Transporte Terrestre (Fondet), Autoridad Metropolitana del Transporte (AMET), Autoridad Metropolitana del Transporte de Santiago (Ametrasan), and the Dirección General de Seguridad de Tránsito y Transporte Terrestre (Digesett), among others.
5 July 2017
