SPEAKERS

Renan Brandao, Head of the Airport Economic Regulation Department, Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency

Renan is currently the head of the Airport Economic Regulation Area at the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency, responsible for the supervision of airport concession contracts, tariff regulation, access to markets and competition in both public and private airports. He was previously the head of the Road and Railroad Project Structuring Area at the Brazilian Land Transportation Agency, and member of the PPI team, a Special Secretariat that works as a national PPP unit attached to the Presidency of Brazil. He is originally an economist of the Brazilian Development Bank, well experienced in structuring projects and financing for transportation and social infrastructure.

Jose Luis Aguilar, Executive Director, Cuenca Airport Corporation

He is a lawyer, graduated from the Catholic University of Ecuador, has master's studies in Spain, and has extensive work experience in the public and private sectors, related to airport and civil aviation issues. He has held, among other important positions, as Undersecretary of Air Transportation and Vice Minister of Transportation Services of Ecuador. He currently holds the position of executive director of the Cuenca Airport Corporation. His management focuses on increasing the air connectivity of the city of Cuenca.

Emerson Junior Castro Hidalgo, Investment Project Portfolio Director, ProInversión

Graduated from the Master in Construction Management from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. Civil Engineer from the Federico Villarreal National University, with specialization in Public Investment Projects and Airport Design.

With more than 10 years of experience in project management, execution and monitoring, management of concession contracts in multimodal infrastructure and public services. He has held various positions in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, as General Director of the General Directorate of Transport Programs and Projects and Advisor on Transport Infrastructure and Public Services of the General Directorate of Transport Programs and Projects and of the General Directorate of Transportation Concessions.

In addition, he has assumed positions of Advisor in the ministerial office of the Production sector, Director of Investment Planning at MINEDU and Director of Reconstruction with Changes at PRONIED.

He currently serves as Project Portfolio Director of PROINVERSIÓN, in charge of promoting the private investment system at the national level.

Luis Felipe Elton Sanfuentes, Head of Project Development and Bidding Division, Ministry of Public Works, Chile

Industrial Civil Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and MBA from the University of Birmingham UK.

He has been head of the Division since June 2018, being ratified in this position in October 2022. During the period between April 1 and October 20, 2022, he served as Deputy General Director of Concessions.

Previously, he held various positions in the public sector, being advisor to the Presidency for the Legado Bicentenario infrastructure project portfolio (2013-2014), Deputy Director of Rural Drinking Water of the Directorate of Hydraulic Works of Public Works (2011-2013). and Head of Emergency and Reconstruction of the General Directorate of Public Works (2010-2011).

In the private sector he has been Commercial Manager at the consulting firm SKM-IRH, project engineer and executive at renowned national construction and service companies in the mining area.

Manuel González Moles, CEO, UG21 Engineering

MSc. Civil Engineer (University of Granada, 1998). MBA in the International Institute San Telmo (Seville, 2008), and Master's in Airport Design, Construction and Maintenance (UDIMA, Madrid, 2020).

He began his career in 1998 at the Junta de Andalucía and, in 2001, co-founded UG21 with Ozgur Unay. He served as an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering in Ciudad Real, teaching Structural Theory. In December 2016, the

Andalucía, Ceuta, and Melilla Section of the Spanish Professional Association of Civil Engineers named him Engineer of the Year 2016.

He is the author of airport projects carried out by the firm in South America, notably his active involvement in the construction of the New ElDorado TWR in Bogotá (80 m height), in the Master Plans of Colombian airports, or in the works for AAP and ADP in Peru in projects in Arequipa, Juliaca, or Piura. Since 2010, he has led the company's international expansion, with permanent offices in 5 countries in South America, and an ambitious Strategic Plan #Horizon2025, aiming to expand to 6 countries, with a staff of 350 professionals and turnover exceeding 15 million euros.

CAROLINA BARBANTI MANSILLA, Vice President of Contract Management, National Infrastructure Agency – ANI, Colombia

Civil Engineer from the Universidad de la Salle, specialist in Construction Company Management from the School of Business Administration-EAN. Engineer Carolina Barbanti has experience in the structuring and development of road projects at the national and District level. She has worked on road infrastructure projects, highlighting her time at the National Road Institute-INVIAS, the Urban Development Institute – IDU.

Currently she works as Vice President of Contractual Management at the National Infrastructure Agency - ANI, a position from which she directs and executes infrastructure projects in their different modes: Airport, port, railway and river.

Luis Miranda, Deputy Director General, General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica

Luis Miranda Muñoz has 32 years of public service from the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica.

He worked for 20 years as an Air Traffic Controller and 12 years in the administrative area where his work stands out as Manager of the Operational Safety System of Air Traffic Services, Head of the Department of Air Navigation Services and the Airspace Administration Unit .

Currently and for 4 years, he has held the position of Deputy Director General of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica.

NELSON MENDOZA ROLÓN, President, DINAC, Paraguay

Mr. Nelson Mendoza Rolón served as a career official at DINAC.

He held high-level positions of trust, serving as Administrator of the Guaraní International Airport (Ciudad del Este) and Administrator of the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (Asunción) respectively.

He represented DINAC as a member before the Airports Council International Latin America and Caribbean ACI-LAC. In the private sector, he invested in Paraguay as an entrepreneur in the transportation and logistics sector.

He was commercial director of multimedia La Nación of Paraguay for ten years, becoming president of the ADEPP (Association of Journalistic Companies of Paraguay)

He is a member of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee. In his youth he was part of the Paraguayan Rugby team, and later he was President of the Paraguayan Rugby Union.

Mónica Prieto, Business Development Manager LATAM North, Johnson Controls

Mónica Prieto Vidarte, Mechatronics Engineer with a specialization in Strategic Management, has more than 18 years of experience in the security industry and knowledge in access control, intrusion, video, fire and BMS. She has worked in manufacturers in the sector such as General Electric, UTC, IndigoVision and is currently working as Business Development Manager for Northern Latin America at Johnson Controls Security Products.