CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Disney Barroca 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.

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.

Andrea Centeno Rodriguez, Executive President, JAPDEVA Board of Directors Port and Economic Development of the Atlantic Slope - Costa Rica

Mrs. Centeno was appointed by the President of Costa Rica as the Executive President at Japdeva (the port authority of Limon)last march 2019. In this position, she has been responsible for leading the transformation process of the port entity as well as initiating the operationalization of the regional development fee of Limon.

Before that, She was part of the Technical Committee of essential COSTA RICA since 2007. This professional communications team developed the new country brand and led its implementation internationally.

Andrea was the Director of Communications of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency. She has led several strategies to promote Costa Rica abroad such as mass high range campaigns, digital campaigns, and the organization of international events.

Centeno was also part of the team responsible for the development of the CINDE´s rising cities strategy. Her role includes a comprehensive work in two rural areas of the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica in order to develop better local competitiveness conditions to create employment and social & economic growth opportunities.

She holds a Masters in Communications and Marketing from the Universidad Latina de CR and a university degree in Public Relations, as well as studies in journalism at the Universidad de CR.

Recently, she has participated as a speaker at the following events:

• Port Dialogues, October 7, 2020. Topic: Puerto Ciudad vision, global perspectives and local challenges. Organized by the Port of Valparaíso.
• Women National Port Day, Costa Rica, September 20, 2020.

Admiral Jorge Luis Cruz Ballado, General Director, Integral Port Administration of Lázaro Cárdenas - Mexico

Experience in Port Administration: for four years I was Director of the Integral Port Administration of Lázaro Cárdenas, during that period two very important and significant maritime terminals were built for the port and the country, the first was the semi-automated container terminal of Lázaro Cárdenas, developed by the international consortium APM Terminals, it is worth mentioning that of this type of terminals there are only 5 in the world, and the other significant work was the Specialized Car Terminal, which after 10 years of litigation, during my administration they were able to reconcile interests and it was possible to develop this terminal, which due to its type, is unique in the country. Other relevant works were the dredging of the navigation channels inside the port, which made Lázaro Cárdenas the deepest port in Mexico, which makes it possible to receive the largest ships in the world.

Experience in the Maritime field: I have developed on board the ships of the Mexican Navy, different naval operations in the Exclusive Economic Zone and Territorial Sea, to make the rule of law prevail, the safeguarding of human life at sea, among many other missions, actively participating in direct support to the population during the contingencies caused by hurricanes Wilma and Stan. Having completed the Introduction Course to administrative processes and maritime operation. Subregional Workshop for the Southern Cone on best practices in Maritime Protection and implementation of the ISPS code (Protection of Ships and Port Facilities) and the Maritime Crisis Management Course. I also acted as inter-institutional liaison between the Secretariat of the Navy and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation to facilitate coordination between the two State Secretariats for issues common to both.

Current Occupation: I work as General Director of the Integral Port Administration of Lázaro Cárdenas, S.A. de C.V.

Jorge Durán, Chief of the CIP Secretariat, Inter-American Committee on Ports

For over 30 years, Jorge Duran has worked with the governments and private sector of the Americas in the design and implementation of development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 2003 Jorge has served at the Organization of American States (OAS) as Senior Advisor in Technology for Development, Senior Manager for Municipal Development and Capacity Building, in 2012 as Chief of the Office of Science, Technology and Innovation and, since 2013, as Chief of the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee on Ports (S/CIP).

He has been responsible for projects such as entrepreneurship strategies for MSMEs, innovation for competitiveness, micro business promotion through ICTs; on-line training; municipal development in e-government and cadaster; scientific journalism, university curricular improvement, maritime and port environmental protection programs and improved supply chain management logistics for increased competitiveness. Additionally, he has a proven record of establishing successful strategic alliances with the private sector.

Previously, Jorge was Director of Regional Cooperation (1995-2000) and then Vice-President of International Affairs (2000-2002) at the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication (ILCE) in Mexico City. Other positions include Advisor in Science and Technology Policy for the Presidency of Mexico (1990-1992) and Special Assistant to the Mexican Ambassador at the U.N. (1994).

He has also been an Associate Professor at the Tecnológico of Monterrey (1997-2000) and the Universidad Iberoamericana (1995-1997) where he designed and taught courses in Latin America’s Political Economy and History. He has Masters’ Degrees, in International Affairs and Science and Technology Policy, from The George Washington University and double B.A. in Psychology and Latin American Studies from The American University in Washington DC where he currently resides.

Ricardo Flores Scheufler, Sr. Manager in Infrastructure and Capital Prj. at Deloitte Spanish LATAM, DELOITTE

Ricardo is senior manager in the infrastructure advisory practice in Deloitte's Mexico office. He has more than 10 years of professional experience, working in strategic and business consulting. During his career, he has developed infrastructure planning projects at the national and regional level, feasibility studies, and structuring of transportation infrastructure projects. He has specialized in the maritime-port and logistics sector having worked in multiple countries in Latin America, including among others: Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala and Panama.

He has collaborated in the execution of projects for the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Inter-American Development Bank, BANOBRAS, Ministry of Transportation in Mexico and Integral Port Administrations of Veracruz, Manzanillo and Coatzacoalcos, as well as with the main port operators private internationally.

Daniel González, Representative Colombia, STC International

Daniel is an Internationalist of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with emphasis on Regional Integration and Development, Mr. Daniel González has experience in business promotion work and internationalization processes in Latin America and Europe, as well as in the area of customer service. Currently, he is working as Representative in Colombia for STC, and thus, responsible for Project management and development in training and education TVET programs with different Colombian organizations such as SENA, Ministry of Transportation, Port Societies, Naval Schools; Maritime experts’ coordination, Consultancy and support in Transport and Logistics business development in Colombia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, and Chile. Likewise, Mr. González has been working on execution of courses and training programs in Smart Ports, Automation and Semi-Automation port crane operational refresher courses and Regionalization and Port development programs in Latin America.

Gloria Hutt Hesse, Minister, Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications - CHILE

Civil Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Certified by the programs of Business Administration and International Finance of Georgetown University, USA. She has been a professor of the Magister of Public Policy of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile. He founded the consulting firm Quiz Consultores, specialized in transportation studies. He was a member of the Infrastructure Policy Council. For 12 years she was partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British transport consultancy, where she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia and Puerto Rico, later expanding her presence to Brazil and Mexico. She was the coordinator and general administrator of Evópoli, the party of which she is the founder. Between January 2010 and 2014 she served as Undersecretary of Transportation, where she coordinated the preparation of the National Transportation Policy and the master development plans for public transportation and the national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for transportation. Chilean.

Admiral Romel Eduardo Ledezma, General Director, Integral Port Administration of Veracruz - Mexico

He is an Engineer in Naval Sciences graduated from the Heroic Naval Military School, has several postgraduate degrees among which the specialty in Naval Command, the Master in Naval Administration at the Center for Naval Superior Studies (CESNAV), belonging to the Secretary of the Navy, Master in Military Administration for Internal Security and National Defense, at the National Defense College.

Thanks to his professionalism and tenacity, he has served in various positions, among which are: Head of the Heroic Naval Military School, Commander of the Eleventh Naval Zone, Commander of the Second Naval Region, Commander of the Eighth Naval Region and Commander of the First Naval Region, the latter based in Veracruz.

He has more than 40 years of experience in the maritime-port sector, with specialties and training in Mexico, Germany, France and Russia.

He currently works as General Director of the Integral Port Administration of Veracruz.

Manuel Martinez de Ubago , Project Manager, STC-NESTRA / STC International

Mr. Manuel Martinez de Ubago is a Project Manager at STC-NESTRA, part of the STC Group. Originally a MSc Civil Engineer from Spain, he then pursued another MSc in Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics at TU Delft, where he graduated Cum Laude.

He now focuses in the wide field of sustainable transport, with particular interest on innovation and digitalization. Among others, he has developed capacity building sessions on Smart Ports for clients in Latin America, Asia and Europe, and has co-developed the Port Management Program in Port Digitalization, in collaboration with Port of Rotterdam Authority. In parallel, he has also been involved in consultancy services in the fields of port digitalization, port sustainability, port resiliency and Inland Waterway Transport, for international organizations.

Alexis Michea, Chief coordinator Logistics Development Program, Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications - CHILE

Industrial Civil Engineer from the Catholic University of Chile and Master in Transport from Imperial College London. He worked for the first 10 years of his career as a consultant in the field of transport planning from the private sector, both in Chile and in the United Kingdom. Starting in 2010, he leads the MTT Logistics Development Program, a specialist team set up to promote a ministerial policy focused on the efficiency and competitiveness of freight transport. He also serves as Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Logistics Development and is a Counselor of the Civil Aeronautics Board.

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.

Juan José Preciado, President, Regional Investment Consulting S.A

Lawyer graduated from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Master in Business Law, graduated from the Austral University. Master in Financial Administration, Universidad del Salvador SUNY. Postgraduate: Oil and Gas Program. Energy Leader Program. ITBA Instituto Tecnológico Bs As. Titular Professor of the Infrastructure Financing Chair of the School of Government of the Austral University.

Professional experience: Regional Investment Consulting S.A: President. Nación Bursátil S.A .: Manager of Finance and Investments. Nación Seguros S.A and Nación Seguros Retiros S.A: Departmental Finance Management. Nueva Bolsa de Comercio de Tucumán S.A: General Manager.

Regional Investment Consulting SA (RICSA) is a consulting firm that since 2003 is dedicated to providing specialized advice and financial solutions to infrastructure projects. In particular, in port matters, we have been professionally accompanying the growth of different ports in the region in their financing strategies, as well as providing financial solutions to different logistics operators.

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.

Alexandra Villacís Parada, Undersecretary of Ports and Maritime and River Transport, Ministry of Transport and Public Works - Ecuador

Villacís Parada, legal professional, with training and experience in the executive, educational and technological innovation fields. His extensive experience and ability allow him to work in situations that demand effort under pressure.

In the maritime - port area, it provides a legal, contractual and social management and innovation solution. Throughout her professional career, she has extensive experience as: President of the Association of Ibero-American Women Jurists (acting); Dean of the Faculty of Law, Politics and Development; Trustee Attorney; Legal Advisor of the GreenAndes Shipping Agency and Navesmar; Legal Director of the National Electricity Corporation (CNEL S.A.), among other important positions.

Since the beginning of her tenure as Undersecretary of Ports and Maritime and Fluvial Transport, all the procedures that have been carried out and that are being carried out have been focused on promoting the strengthening and development of maritime and port activity in our country.