Committees
- Organizing Committee
- Advisory Committee
- Technical Committee
Executive Committe
Luis Paredes
Program Chair
Geotechnical Leader, Stantec, Chile
Carlos Barahona
Executive Director
General Manager, Gecamin, Chile
Oliver Allendes
Coordinator
Gecamin, Chile
Directing Members
Percy Mayta
Process Plant Manager, Laguna Norte, Barrick, Peru
Patrick Fox
Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jan Vaslestad
Senior Principal Engineer, Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Norway
Caius Priscu
Head of Mineral Residue, Anglo American
Martín Colil
Sustainability and External Affairs Director, Project Vice Presidency, Codelco, Chile
Gabriel Troncoso
President, International Commission on Large Dams, Chile
Dimiter Alexiew
Independent Consultant, Germany
Javier Aparicio
Development Manager, Zañartu Ingenieros Consultores, Chile
Nick Araujo
CEO, Servicios de Ingeniería Geosintética, Costa Rica
Arturo Atria
On-Site Project Manager, CyD Ingeniería, Chile
Sam Bhat
Vicepresident Global Business Development, Titan Environmental, Canada
Carlos Bone
General Manager, Membrantec, Chile
Morné Breytenbach
Executive Director, Huesker, Australia
Gabriel Caballero
General Manager, Filmtex, Colombia
Javier Calderón
Latin America Sales Director, Cetco, Chile
Fernando Castillo
General Manager Latin America, Thrace Group, Chile
Daniele Cazzuffi
Geosynthetics and Geotecnical Engineer, CESI, Italy
James Collin
Founder, The Collin Group, USA
Fernando Cruz
General Manager, Seicsa Proyectos Ambientales, Mexico
Oliver Detert
Head of Engineering Department, Huesker, Germany
Andy Durham
Senior Geosynthetics Engineer, Owens Corning, USA
Jimmie Eloff
North American Sales Manager Owens Corning, USA
Jorge Ferlov
General Manager Ibero and Latin America, Fibertex Nonwovens, Portugal
Julio Ferreira
Operations Director, TRI Ambiental, Brazil
Francesco Fontana
Managing Director, Manifattura Fontana, Italy
Rodrigo García
Business Development Manager, SIGA Ingeniería, Chile
Tarik Hadj-Hamou
Manager, Solid Waste and Geotechnical Services, SLR Consulting, USA
Miguel Jaramillo
Head of Civil and Geotechnical Division, Enel, Chile
Andrés León
General Manager, Anddes, Chile
Kent von Maubeuge
Marketing Director and Product Manager, Naue, Germany
Iván Méndez
Project and Operations Manager, M&S Ingeniería, Chile
Jennifer Nicks
Geotechnical Infrastructure Design Program Manager, Federal Highway Administration, USA
Raúl Oberreuter
President, Chilean Association of Ports and Coastal Engineering, Chile
Luis Alberto Olcay
General Manager, SIGA Ingeniería, Chile
Alejandro Palma
Regional Commercial Manager, Mining, Vial y Vives, Chile
Denys Parra
General Manager, Anddes, Peru
Pascual Perazzo
Latam. Business Development Manager, Carpi Tech, Panama
Luis Pinilla
General Manager, CINIX Engineering and Construction, Chile
Germán Poblete
Project Manager, Novatech, Chile
Ronald Sauterel
Head of Department of Irrigation Construction, Ministry of Public Works, Chile
Mark Smith
Chief Geotechnical Advisor, Piteau Associates, USA
Iván Suazo
Engineering and Development Manager, M&S Ingeniería, Chile
Bachir Touileb
Dam and Geotechnical Expert, Artelia, France
Romy Valdivia
Project Manager, Anddes, Peru
Pablo Cabezas Vilaró
Engineering Manager, MWH, Chile
Gonzalo Walker
General Manager, EcoClean, Chile
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Claudia Welkner
Principal Civil Engineer BHP Minerals Americas
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Pedro Abad
Secretary General, IGS, Spain
José Adriasola
Principal Engineer Hydraulics & Hydrology, Bechtel, Chile
Mauricio Aguirre
Project Engineer, Minera Spence, Chile
Cristóbal Binvignat
Engineering and Operations Manager, Ingenieros Consultores, Chile
Eric Blond
Vice-President, SAGEOS CTT Group, Canada
Rifat Bulut
Professor, Oklahoma State University, USA
José Burgos
Tailings Dam Operation Chief, El Soldado, Anglo American, Chile
Elif Cicek
Assistant Professor, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Indiara Giugni
Independent Consultant, Brazil
Claudio Godoy
Project Engineer, Arcadis, Chile
Antonio Gómez
Full Professor, University of Minho, Portugal
Jean-Pierre Gourc
Emeritus Professor, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
Jie Han
Glenn L. Parker Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, The University of Kansas, USA
Erdin Ibraim
Professor, University of Bristol, UK
Han-Yong Jeon
Professor, Inha University, Korea
Patricio Jorquera
Professor, Universidad de Chile
Denis Kalumba
Geotechnical Engineering Associated Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Prabir Kolay
Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Lyesse Laloui
Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Dov Leschinsky
Emeritus Professor, University of Delaware, USA
Benjamin Leshchinsky
Professor, Oregon State University, USA
Gopal Madabhushi
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Felipe Maldonado
Head of Geosynthetics, Emaresa, Chile
Janendranath Mandal
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Greg Meiers
Senior Geoscientist, O'Kane Consultants, Canada
Alejandro Méndez
General Manager, Emin Sistemas Geotécnicos, Chile
Walter Mondaca
Professor, Universidad de la Serena, Chile
Nicola Moraci
Full Professor, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Edgar Mosquera
Assistant Professor, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Ernesto Najar
Civil Design Engineer, Anddes, Peru
Krishna Reddy
Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA
Pietro Rimoldi
Civil Engineering Consultant, Italy
Rolando Ríos
Director, Materials and Thermomechanical Processes Institute, Universidad Austral, Chile
Danilo Rojas
Technical Specialist, Polytex, Chile
David Romo
Senior Engineer, Geo-Logic Associates, USA
Pascale Rouse
Geotechnical Engineer, Itasca, Chile
André Silva
Commercial Manager South America, Huesker, Brazil
Xiaochao Tang
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Widener University, USA
Fumio Tatsuoka
Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Nathalie Touze
Regional Director Centre d’Antony, IRSTEA Geosynthetics, France
Erol Tutumluer
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Víctor Valdebenito
Head of Environmental Monitoring, Minera Los Pelambres, Chile
Giselle Vega
Sales Director, GSE, Chile
Orencio Vilar
Professor, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Felipe Villalobos
Civil Engineering Professor, Universidad Católica de Concepción, Chile