Walter de Silva is an Italian car designer and former head of Volkswagen Group Design until 2015. Since beginning his car design career in 1972 as head of design for Fiat, de Silva has also worked as a designer at I.DE.A Institute, and as head of design for Alfa Romeo, SEAT and the‘VW brand group' (Skoda, SEAT, Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Ducati)