CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Ana Luiza Becker Salles, Director, Special Secretariat of the Investment Partnership Program (SPPI) - Brazil

Director of the Ministry of Economy's Investment Partnership Program.

Lawyer with experience in the areas of Administrative, Regulatory and Customs Law and acting as a legal consultant in an office specializing in projects in the Port sector. Master's student in Law, State and Constitution at the University of Brasília (UnB). Specialist in Administrative Law at the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público (IDP). Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern Santa Catarina - UNISUL. Bachelor of Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC.

Jose Beni, Controller, General Administration of Ports - Argentina

Jose Beni has been the Comptroller of the General Administration of Ports of Argentina since May 2020. His duties include the planning of port policies to promote the arrival of more cargo and more cruise ships to the only national port in the country and to represent the national interests in the development of foreign trade.

Mr. Beni has extensive experience in the maritime sector of the Argentine Republic. He has been working in Puerto Buenos Aires since 2012 where he has served as General Manager and within the Operations Management. Previously, he has held different positions within the Secretary of Transportation of the Nation and the Undersecretariat of Ports and Inland Waterways.

Olga Lucía Ramírez Duarte, Vice Minister of Infrastructure, Ministry of Transport - Colombia

Olga Lucía Ramírez is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario, Master in Administrative Law from the same university, Specialist in Competition Law from Universidad Externado and holds an LLM in Air and Space Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her expertise is in aeronautical, airport and infrastructure matters.

She has served as legal director of major infrastructure projects including civil works, roads and airport concessions, worked as Director of Infrastructure at the Ministry of Transportation, and is currently the Vice Minister of Infrastructure of the Ministry of Transportation in Colombia.

Prior to that, she was the Legal Director of the Operador Aeroportuario "Aeropuertos de Oriente S.A.S.", concessionaire of six airport terminals in Colombia; she also participated as Legal Coordinator in the modernization project of El Dorado airport in Bogotá and as part of her Master in Air and Space Law she did her internship with the Schiphol Group, the ones in charge of the operation of the main airport in the Netherlands (Amsterdam). Likewise, she is founder member and president of the Colombian Association of Airport Law, invited professor in the Master of Economic Law of the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá for specific airport topics and professor of the airport infrastructure module in the certificate course of Air Law of the same university.

Olga Lucía has also participated in events and conferences worldwide and locally on airport and infrastructure issues, within the framework of the Colombian Association of Airport Law.

Disney Neto , General Coordinator of Port Lease Modeling, National Secretariat of Ports and Waterway Transport - Brasil

Mr. Disney Barroca Neto has a degree in International Relations from the UNIBRASIL University Center, Curitiba, he completed a postgraduate degree in Public Management (Dom Bosco Catholic University) and a specialization in Port Management at the Institut Portuaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche, in France.

He is currently the General Coordinator of Port Leasing Models of the National Secretariat of Ports. He also holds the following positions: President of the Council of the Port Authority of Rio de Janeiro. Fiscal Counselor of the Espírito Santo Docks company - CODESA, Brazilian Representative in the Inter-American Committee on Ports - CIP / OEA, Vice President of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Logistics, Innovation and Competitiveness CIP / OEA. Appointed by the Ministry of Transportation to be the Brazilian Representative in the American Association of Port Authorities - AAPA. Consultant Member of the Maritime and Port Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association - OAB - DF.

FLOR PITTY, DIRECTOR OF PORTS AND AUXILIARY MARINE INDUSTRIES, Panama Maritime Authority (AMP)

Graduated with honors Sigma Lambda from the University of Panama as a Bachelor of Maritime Business Administration. Additionally, he holds a Master's Degree in Navigation and Transportation Sciences from the prestigious Taiwan Ocean University, where he developed research studies in the ports of Keelung and Kaoshiung, publishing results in various International Journals on topics related to optimization in the stowage of container yards, which were supported at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

She joined the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) in 2009, performing in different important technical positions, of which she mostly served as Head of the Port Operations Department, where she had the opportunity to effectively implement the process of creating nautical charts. electronic, develop valuable projects with International Organizations, such as: Maritime Routes of the Greater Caribbean together with the Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM) and the Association of Caribbean States; make effective adjustments and implementations of the national and international regulations related to the maritime-port sector, such as the amendments to the SOLAS Convention, VGM in the Ports of the Republic of Panama.

XAVIER UGOLOTTI, Undersecretary of Ports and Maritime and River Transport, Ministry of Transport and Public Works - Ecuador