Pedro Gómez Damborenea

Pedro Gómez Damborenea

Pedro Gómez Damborenea has a degree in Law specialising in Economic Law from the University of Deusto as well as a degree in Political Science from the Open University. He has been deputy councillor of the Planning and Strategy Department of Industry, Innovation, Trade and Tourism for the Basque government.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Master in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and worked in several different medias.

Has been news editor for Canal Plus and for El País in the Business supplement and Basque Country for the last 13 years, where he was responsible for economic news.

His professional career has been combined with work as a teacher of economic and legal journalism at summer classes from the UAM-El País Journalism School.

In 2010 he was appointed deputy councillor of the Planning and Strategy Department of Industry, Innovation, Trade and Tourism for the IX Legislature of the Basque government, acting independently and not being a member of any political party.

Antonio Lamela

Born in Madrid, December of1926.

Key Awards:

Vice-president and founding member of the Club Español de la Energía [Spanish Energy Club] 1985.

Founding Member of Foro del Agua [Water Forum]. Madrid, 1996.

Founding member and Board Member of the Club Español del Medio-Ambiente, CEMA [Spanish Environmental Club].

Member of the Comité Español del Consejo Mundial de la Energía [Spanish Committee for the World Energy Council]

Board member of the Instituto Español de la Energía [Spanish Energy Institute].

GRAN CRUZ DE LA ORDEN DEL MÉRITO CIVIL [Spanish Civil Merit Award]. 2005

MEDALLA DE ORO AL MÉRITO EN EL TRABAJO [Gold Medal for Merit at Work]. 2005.

PREMIO REY JAIME I [KING JAMES 1st AWARD I] “Urbanism, Landscape and Sustainability”. 2006

Teaching Director for the SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE and URBANISM. Madrid´s Camilo José Cela Univeristy. June, 2006.

Adorned an HONORARY DEGREE. At Madrid´s CAMILO JOSÉ CELA University. 2007

Member of the HIGH CONSULTING BOARD. PREMIOS REY JAIME I FOUNDATION. Valencia 2007

Award CEMA 2008

PREMIO ESPAÑOL EJEMPLAR [Spanish Exemplary Award] from the DENAES Foundation. Madrid 2010.

EUROPEAN EXCELLENCE AWARD 2010. Madrid

MEMBER OF HONOUR, C.O.A.M. Madrid 2010

His latest works include:

Madrid-Barajas Airport. Remodelling the terminals: T-1, T-2 and T-3. New general project for the NAT, T-4 and State Pavilion.

Alzheimer Treatment Centre. Madrid

New Sports Complex for Real Madrid.

Expansion and Remodelling of the “Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.” Madrid

"Torres Colón" and its Remodelling. Madrid

LAROC Building, in Coral Gables. Florida. USA.

Expansion of the Okencie International Airport. Warsaw, Poland.

Krakow Stadium, Poland.

Note: Published “Una Iniciativa para La Política Hídrica en España” [An initiative for a Water Policy in Spain], now in revised editions; in 2007 “Strategies for the Earth and Space: “Geoísmo y Cosmoísmo” [Geoism and Cosmoism]; in 2008 “Del idioma Español y su Futuro” [The Spanish Language and its Future] and “El Español de los Negocios“ [Business Spanish].

Participant in various Juries for Doctoral Defences, Contests, Awards, Commissions, etc. both as President and member.

Dictionary editor for Energy and Engineering

Ibon Areso

IBON ARESO MENDIGUREN ( ARCHITECT )

He has participated in the drafting of various City Planning Documents, as a liberal professional as well as for the Administration Department, having also served the following roles in the latter:

He has been:

Representative of City Planning, Housing and Architecture in Bizkaia, for the Regional Development and Transport Department of the Basque Government

Deputy Councillor for Regional Planning of the same Basque Government Department

Manager of the Municipal Office of the City Plan of Bilbao, created for the development of the new City Distribution General Plan

First Deputy Mayor and Representative of the City Department and Environment in the city of Bilbao

First Deputy Mayor and Representative of the Works and Services Department

Councillor for Bilbao’s river since its foundation

Member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Association for the Revitalisation of the Bilbao Metro (Bilbao Metrópoli-30)

Member of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bilbao, S.L. (Guggenheim Museum)

Chairman for the Board of Directors of the Urban Society for the Renovation of the Historic Quarter of Bilbao, SURBISA, S.A

Member of the Board of Directors of Bilbao’s Port Authority

Chairman for Bilbogas, S.A

Chairman for the Consortium for Water Bilbao Bizkaia

Representative of the Strategic Intervention Department and Parking

Chairman for the Board of Directors of the Artxandako Funikularra S.A Company - Funicular de Artxanda, S.A

At this moment, as well as continuing to carry out several previous roles, he is:

First Deputy Mayor and Representative of the Traffic and Transport Department for the city of Bilbao.