Carlos Ferrás Sexto

Who is Carlos Ferrás Sexto?

Carlos Ferrás Sexto is a Galician geographer and academic.

Carlos Ferrás is a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography of the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is also the director of the Socio-Territorial Research Group and the Centre for Euro-Regional Studies Galicia/North Portugal.

Ferrás Sexto completed his PhD under the supervision of Patrick O'Flanagan, conducting a comparative study on the parallel evolution and rural change between Ireland and Galicia. This work earned him the title of Doctor Europeus. After his Irish experience, and before returning to his native Galicia, further research took him to Mexico, where he taught at the University of Guadalajara.

He has studied extensively the fields of economic geography, cultural and historical geography, Atlantic Europe, counter urbanization and suburbanization, concept of garden city, rural settlements, processes of rural change and the use of new technologies applied to the development of rural areas, including digital literacy. He also is a specialist in the so-called "territorial marketing", leading a number of innovative development projects such as Granxa Familiar and Galicia Auténtica.