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Antón Costas (Spain). President of the Advisory Council of ENDESA in Catalonia
Civil engineer and Doctor on Economics, is Professor of Economical Politics at Barcelona’s University, where he has worked as Director of the Department of Economical Politics and World Economy. Moreover, he has encouraged and manages the Group of Investigation on Public Politics and Economic Regulation, as well as the Master on Economy and Regulation of Public Economical Services (Telecommunications, Energy, Transports and Water). He’s also a member of the Board of Directors at the Economy Society.
His academic interest and his publications are specially centered in the analysis of public politics and the processes of economical reform, examining the role that ideas, interests and institutions represent in these problems.
Author of numerous books and scientific articles, he developes an intense activity of divulgation about problems on economical politics, throughout conferences, as a columnist in general press, radio and television. He was the first Costumer Defender at Endesa. He’s counselor of several private companies and public institutions. He has belonged and managed several official comissiones to adivise different governments on public politics. -
José Esquinas (Spain). Director of the Chair of Studies on Hunger and Poverty
He has spent almost 30 years working in FAO, living in Rome, but travelling around the world. At FAO he was appointed Secretary of the Intergovernmental Commission of Genetical Resources for Food and Agriculture in 1986, President of the Sub-Committee on Ethics for Food and Agriculture of FAO in 1999 and Acting Secretary of the International Treaty on Philogenetical Resources for Food and Agriculture, from June 2006 until 2007. We owe him the signature, in 1983, of the International Agreement on Genetical Resources, and in 2001 the signature of the International Treaty on Philogenetical Resources for Food and Agriculture.
In 2007 he quitted FAO and went back as professor to the Technical Superior School of Agronomists of the Technical University of Madrid. However, he took a leave, to manage the Chair of Studies on Hunger and Poverty of the University of Córdoba. One of the publications of this Chair is “The statement of Córdoba”. Some extracts of this statement can be found in the speech given by Ban Ki-Moon at Madrid’s Summit on the alimentary crisis. -
José María Fluxá (Spain). President of Water Forum
He’s President of the Social Council of the Authonomic University of Madrid, President of the Conference of Presidents of Social Councils of Spanish Universities and Member of the Universities Coordination Council. He presides the Water Forum. He’s a member of the Executive Committee of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI), member of the Commission of Water and Energy and of the Commission of Urban Planning of the School of Civil Engineers. He has received the prize “Economy of water” of the World Bank, UN and UNESCO.
He’s been during 15 years General Director of the Association of Industrial Electric Investigation. In the Ministry of Public Works he has successively been General Director of Hydraulic Works and of Urban Planning. He was Director of Aragon’s Energy and Industries and Director of Electrical Planning, UNESA, after a period working as engineer at Hidroeléctrica Española, where he developed projects at Tagus river. -
José María Galván (Spain, currently lives in Vatican City). Professor of the Moral Theology Department at Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome
He is also professor of Anthropological Theology at the Superior Institute on Religious Science all’Apollinare, centre of the same University, raised by the Congregation for Catholic Education, and characterised by the methodology of “complex learning”. Since 2000 collaborates with ARTS Laboratory of the Superior School Santa Ana of Pisa about subjects related with the anthropological implications of investigation in robotics and about technology on the whole. He’s associate founder of the Roman Academy of Arts and of the cultural association Arte21.
He has written about theology and technoethics. In this field he has raised Prometheus myth, the birth of technoethics, the hope that causes and its acceptability, technology and the paradigms of dominion and the relationships interwined as well as the anthropological key for the aim of technology; he has also considered the subject of social integration of artificial creatures, of humanoid robots. -
Barry Grear (Australia). Former President of World Federation of Engineering Organizations
Is an electric engineering with a wide experience in executive jobs in public administration in subjects related to construction. As the former President of National Engineers of Australia he has had a wide experience in the professional requirements in engineering that graduates and engineers need. Barry was the first president of the Committee for Engineering Coordination at APEC and is the current President of the Australian Committee of Monitoring for APEC and EMF.
Barry has been an active engineer in the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Southoriental Asia and Pacific (FEISEAP) for more than a decade. After its active participation in the three permanent commissions, in the General Assembly of WFEO in 1999, Barry was appointed National Member in the Executive Committee, afterwards he was appointed Vicepresident of WFEO and, finally, President of WFEO for the biannual period that finished in November 2009. - Sam Kundishora (Zimbabwe). President of African Engineers Forum
Is co-founder and director of GIACC (Global Centre for Anti-corruption in Infrastructures). He’s vicepresident of the World Federation of Engineering Committee in Information and Communication Organisation, member of the World Council of Civil Engineering and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Zimbabwe. He was Vicepresident of the Federation of Engineering Organizations of Africa, and president of the Engineering Institution of Zimbabwe.
He’s and engineer in electronics, computer science and communications technologies. He has worked in the academic field and in industrial sectors in Scandinavian countries and Africa. He was part of a team that was pioneer in the specific uses of the electronic card used in industrial environments in all the world. He was a founder of the net of users of scientific team in southern and oriental Africa. He’s founder and executive director of the Academy of Zimbabwe and the Net of Investigation. He has been consultant of GTZ and UNESCO, and has belonged to several boards in the academic and industrial field. He received from the President of the State Council for Investigation of Zimbabwe the merit certificate for its contribution to investigation in the field of Information and Technology communications. -
Teófilo-Julián del Pozo, Founder of BTT Telecomunicaciones
He’s a civil engineer (electric speciality) by the Technical University of Madrid. He has been Professor of Electronics and Electronic Measurements at the Technical Superior School of Industrial Engineers. He has also been Director of the Technical Superior School of Antonio de Nebrija University. He’s MBA by the School of Industrial Organisation; he now presides its Advisory Council. He’s also President of Honour of the Association of Operator Companies and Telecommunication Services (ASTEL), Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration of the School of Civil Engineers of Madrid, and member of the Spanish Seniors’ Board for Technical Cooperation.
In the business field he has been Managing Director of ATAIO Engineers SA, General Manager of SECOINSA, Director of DATA GENERAL SA, General Director and Vicepresident of BTTelecomunicaciones SA, Counselor of AIRTEL and Boss of its Foundation.
He has received, for his professional career, the Prize of Honour Salvà i Campillo, from the Association of Telecommunication Enginyers of Catalonia, and the National Prize of Industrial Engineering of the Council of Civil Engineering Schools of Spain. - Ishii Yumio (Japan). President of the Committee on Disaster Prevention at WFEO
Dr. Civil Engineer by Tokyo’s University, Ishii Yumio, has developed a wide professional career at CTI Engineering, where he has held high responsibility positions. He’s currently member of the Advisory International Council of the World Conference and Exhibition INGENIERÍA 2010 and expert in disaster prevention. He’s also President of the recently created Permanent Committee of Disaster Prevention of World Federation of Engineering Organizations.
Of its wide curriculum can also be stood out the Presidency of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineers, the Direction of the Committee for International Activities of the Japanese Federation of Engineering Societies or its membership to the Board of Governors of the World Water Council, as well as to the Japanese National Committee, to the Advisory Council and to the Engineering and Development Committee or the Executive Committee of WFEO. He’s also a member of the Science Council of Japan. These last years he has been an active promoter of ethical behaviours in the direction of consultancy services.
