General Manager
TRANSMILENIO S.A.
www.transmilenio.gov.co

Since March 2006 he worked as Deputy Manager of TRANSMILENIO S.A., with important contributions in planning and institutional development and coordination of strategies for working with all actors in the System, and National and District agencies for the development and consolidation of the TransMilenio project.
Since November 2008 he is the General Manager of TRANSMILENIO S.A.

With extensive experience in the public sector, he has held management Management positions in the Administration of both National and District levels: In the ICFES (Colombian Institute for the promotion of superior education) as Chief of the Testing Division, with responsibility of overall administration of educational assessment tests in the country; in the Administrative Department of District Planning he worked as a Deputy Director of Programming and Monitoring of Public Investment and also as Manager of District Programs and Projects Bank of Public Investment, areas from which he coordinated the formulation of development plans for Bogota and the installation of models for programming, monitoring and evaluating public investment projects.

Education: Public Administrator from the “ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN PUBLICA”, Specialist in Quality and Productivity of the “Universidad Del Valle”, with studies in Management and Administration of Local Government from the Ibero-American Municipal Union of Spain.

9:00 – 10:30 Morning Session 1: BRT achievements and challenges: Lessons learned and way forward, from Curitiba to Guangzhou and beyond

Scope and Objectives: Provide a global perspective of the advances in BRT worldwide, with special focus on areas of improvement derived from analysis of case studies.