Iñaki Azkuna

{{Short description|Spanish politician (1943–2014)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Iñaki Azkuna

|image = Inaki_Azkuna_2005.jpg

|caption = Iñaki Azkuna in 2005

|office = Mayor of Bilbao

|term_start = July 4, 1999

|term_end = March 20, 2014

|predecessor = Josu Ortuondo

|successor = Ibon Areso

|birthname = Iñaki Azkuna Urreta

|birth_date = {{birth date|1943|2|14}}

|birth_place = Durango, Spain

|death_date = {{death date and age|2014|3|20|1943|2|14}}

|death_place = Bilbao, Spain

|party = Basque Nationalist Party

}}

Iñaki Azkuna Urreta (14 February 1943 – 20 March 2014) was a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party. He was mayor of the city of Bilbao, Biscay in the Basque Country, from 1999 until his death. In 2012, Azkuna won the World Mayor Prize, honoring the most outstanding mayors in the world, for his transformation of industrial Bilbao into a cultural centre.{{cite news

|url= http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/legislatura/gobierno/nacionalista/minoria/elpepiesp/20030119elpepinac_2/Tes/

|title=Una legislatura de gobierno nacionalista en minoría |language=Spanish

|work=El País |publisher= Edicíones El País |date=19 January 2003 | last=Galarraga | first= Naiara

|accessdate=9 August 2010

}}{{cite news

|url= http://www.diariovasco.com/prensa/20070617/politica/tension-dejarle-alcaldias-azpeitia_20070617.html

|title=Tensión del PNV con EA por dejarle sin las alcaldías de Azpeitia y Zumaia |language=Spanish

|work=El Diario Vasco |publisher=Sociedad Vascongada de Publicaciones, S.A. |date=17 June 2007 |last=Surio |first=Alberto

|accessdate=9 August 2010

}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/jan/11/guggenheim-museum-bilbao-tourism-arts|title=Bilbao mayor wins award for transforming declining city|last=Crane|first=Helen|date=2013-01-11|website=the Guardian|access-date=2016-05-26}}

Azkuna died from prostate cancer on 20 March 2014 in Bilbao, Biscay. He was 71 years old.{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.es/espana/20140320/abci-muere-inaki-azkuna-201403181036.html|title=Fallece a los 71 años Iñaki Azkuna, alcalde de Bilbao, aquejado de un cáncer|date=20 March 2014|accessdate=20 March 2014|newspaper=ABC|language=es}}