CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

ALMUDENA ALCARAZ CASQUILLO, Senior Commercial and Business Development, EXOLUM

ALMUDENA ALCARAZ CASQUILLO is a Mining Technical Engineer and a Technical Industrial Engineer. She holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering specialising in Fluid Thermal Energy from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She joined Exolum in 2015 as an Operations Technician and subsequently joined the Commercial and Business Development Department, participating in the company's international expansion process, which is where she is currently based as well as managing client portfolios and relations. Such clients can range from airlines and suppliers all the way to airports.

Allison Aymerich Perez, adviser to the Ministerial Office, Ministry of Public Works - Costa Rica

Allison Aymerich Perez. Ministry of Public Works (MOPT). Civil Engineering, Costa Rica. Master in Project, Construction and Exploitation of Airport Infrastructures. Burgos, Spain. Since 2019, adviser to the Ministerial Office, providing technical assistance and advice to superiors, in the field of civil and aeronautical engineering.

Juan Francisco Arboleda Osorio, Vice President of Contractual Management, ANI National Infrastructure Agency - Colombia

Economist and Master in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes, with a Master's degree with Merit in Public Management and Government from the London School of Economics and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the JFKennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The economist Juan Francisco Arboleda has professional experience in fiscal policy, macroeconomics, allocation of resources from the General Budget of the Nation and monitoring of sectoral policies. He currently serves as Vice President of Contractual Management of the National Infrastructure Agency, a position from which he leads the formulation, execution and evaluation of policies and plans related to the contractual management of concessioned transport infrastructure projects and other forms of public-private partnership. especially for railway, port and airport modes.

Claudio Dutary, Airport Operations Manager, Tocumen International Airport

Degree in Law and Political Sciences from the University of Panama. Specialization in Aeronautical Law, Brazil. Diplomat in Management of Aviation Facilitation and Airport Operations, Madrid, Spain.

Air Traffic Controller Specialist (Aerodrome, Approach Control and Area Control Center) from 1981 to 1996.

From 2000 to 2004, he served as Air Navigation Director of the Civil Aviation Authority.

In 2003, he was Panama’s representative to the XI World Conference on Air Navigation in Montreal, Canada.

He was a member of the Aeronautical Commission which elaborated the Civil Aeronautical Law, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Law that regulates the administration of airports in Panama.

From 2007 to 2009, he was consultant and international auditor in Operations and Airport Management.

Since 2004, he is the Airport Operations Manager at Tocumen International Airport.

Juan Carlos García Pérez de Arce, Minister, Ministry of Works - Chile

Architect from the Catholic University of Valparaíso, with a master's degree in Urban Management from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France. His experience in the public sector is developed in the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism; in the MOP, as Regional Director of Architecture of Valparaíso; in Corfo and the Country Service in the Aysén Region.

As an architect, he has promoted important projects in the Valparaíso region, where he studied and lives, such as the construction of the Valparaíso Cultural Park, the Quillota Municipal Stadium, the Pompeya Theater in Villa Alemana and the house of Pedro Aguirre Cerda on Calle Larga, among others.

Since 2011, he has served as Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Center of the University of Valparaíso (CINV), where he developed the institutional management, the relationship with the community and the dissemination projects of the research center.

As of June 2014, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Port Company of Valparaíso (EPV), where he was in charge of defining policies for the development of the port and strengthening its relationship with the city.

He is married to Xochitl Poblete and they have two children.

Luis Miranda Muñoz, general director, General Directorate of Civil Aviation - Costa Rica

He has worked for the General Directorate of Civil Aviation as Air Traffic Controller since 1992, has provided his services at the main airports in Costa Rica in Aerodrome and Approach, as well as serving as Supervisor of the Juan Santamaría Airport Control Center.

In 2012, he developed the Operational Safety System for Air Navigation Services, and in 2016 he assumed the Head of that Department, promoting, together with the Industry, among other projects, the PBN departure and arrival procedures at the Juan Santamaría Airport.

Since November 2019, he has been appointed deputy director general and, together with his work team, participates in the activities aimed at recovering category 1 for Costa Rica by the FAA.

He is currently the general director of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation.