Port City interface and Climate

Arc'hantael DOROTHE

Responsable de la mission prospection, valorisation et partenariats - Service des canaux

VILLE DE PARIS - Direction de la Voirie et des Déplacements

Arc'hantael Dorothé trained as an urban planner and has made urban and environmental issues her speciality. Initially a project manager for one of Paris' districts, she worked on sustainable development, energy renovation and Parisian canals. Since 2020, her missions within the City of Paris Canals Department have focused on strategic project monitoring, reconciling uses of the waterway, enhancing the value of the public river domain and dialogue with the networks of stakeholders concerned.

Beatrice MORETTI

PhD, Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design

UNIVERSITY OF GENOA, Department Architecture and Design

PhD Architect, Assistant Professor at the Department Architecture and Design, University of Genoa. Her research and teaching activity focus on port cities, port-city architectures and coastal extreme environments.
Currently, she is Principal Investigator for the EU-funded research "The Port-clUster LandScapE: Developing a Spatial and Design Approach to Port Clusters” within NextGenerationEU. Moretti has lectured at TU Delft, Yeditepe University Istanbul, ETH Zürich, Chung-Ang University of Seoul. In 2022, she has been Visiting Critic at Florida International University and scientific consultant for AIVP in the MAGPIE Smart Green Ports Project.

Driss BENABAD

Directeur Général Délégué

SOCIETE D'AMENAGEMENT POUR LA RECONVERSION DE LA ZONE PORTUAIRE DE TANGER VILLE

Mr Driss BENABAD is a graduate engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Electricité et de Mécanique, class of 1992. A leader with over 30 years' experience in project management and expertise in the building, infrastructure and energy sectors. He has contributed to the design, management and implementation of major real estate, tourism, cultural, urban development, energy and environmental projects. Mr. Benabad is currently Managing Director of SAPT. The Tanger Ville Port Reconversion Project, with an estimated investment of 750 million Euros, includes various components: Marina, cruise, fast-ferry, new fishing port, cultural facilities, public spaces, hotels, shopping and entertainment, residential complexes and offices. 

Angel PULIDO HERNANDEZ

Director

AUTORIDAD PORTUARIA DE SEVILLA

Anne-Marie JEAN

Présidente

PORT AUTONOME DE STRASBOURG

Elected in June 2020, Anne-Marie Jean is a Strasbourg city councillor and vice-president of Employment, Training, Sustainable Economy, Ecological Business Transition, Trade, Crafts and Sustainable Tourism for the Strasbourg Eurometropolis. Anne-Marie Jean is President of the Port Autonome de Strasbourg and the Maison de l'Emploi de Strasbourg, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Agence de Développement Economique d'Alsace, the Agence de Développement et d'Urbanisme de l'Agglomération Strasbourgeoise, the Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale and the Office de Tourisme.

Jordi TORRENT

Strategy Director

AUTORIDAD PORTUARIA DE BARCELONA

Jordi Torrent is currently the Strategy Director of the Port of Barcelona. In this position he has developed the Port's IV Strategic Plan which has adapted the Port’s strategy and objectives to the latest global and regional trade and logistics trends. He is particularly involved in the intermodal sector, and has designed and implemented initiatives in this 

field, such as the development of PPP projects of inland terminals and rail services in Spain and France. He has been involved in the Port, logistics and rail sectors for 15years.

Jordi Torrent is also Managing Director of the company B2B Logistics Busan Barcelona Hub, and member of the board of directors of several societies managing intermodal terminals in Spain and France. 

He is Secretary General of Medports. He represents the Port of Barcelona in various international organizations, such as WPCAP, and ESPO.

Nicole PASTENE SANGUINETTI

Vicepresidenta del Directorio

EMPRESA PORTUARIA VALPARAISO

Nicole Pastene is a lawyer with a minor in social communication from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and has an International Diploma in Financial Lines from the Escuela del Seguro in agreement with the Universidad de los Andes, and a Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Study in the prevention of Gender Violence from the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain).

With more than 5 years of experience in the insurance market, she was Assistant Manager of Financial Lines at the insurance company Ace Group Chile (Chubb), and in recent years has developed in the field of public higher education at the University of Valparaiso, being appointed as Director of the Specialized Investigation Unit on Harassment and Discrimination; currently serves as vice president of the Board of Puerto Valparaiso, being part of the process of port expansion and port city integration.

Benno BULTINK

Digital River Manager

RIJKSWATERSTAAT

Benno Bultink, innovation manager with expertise on transitions on infrastructure planning and integrated water management, is working for Rijkswaterstaat, the directorate general for Public Works and Water Management, part of the ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands. He is currently the project manager of Connected River, a leading, EU-funded transnational innovation project which aims to tackle challenges related to shared waterways and waterfronts. He deserves credit for his front-running work on user centric, agile innovation and collaboration across borders. 

Marie-Pierre PADOVANI

Cheffe du Service des Canaux - Direction de la Voirie et des Déplacements

VILLE DE PARIS - Direction de la Voirie et des Déplacements

As a City of Paris engineer in urban engineering, she was strongly attracted to environmental issues from the moment she took up her first position with the City of Paris. First in the field of sanitation, then drinking water. The issues involved in adapting the City of Paris to climate change then brought me into the field of urban planning, and she recently joined the Paris Canals department.

 

Jason MCFARLANE

Urban Economics Director

HATCH LTD - AUSTRALIA

Jason McFarlane (MBA, Bsc) is a highly experienced economic development professional with a strong focus on the investments, relationships, structures and systems required for sustained socioeconomic impact.  Jason is Global Director - Urban Advisory at Hatch and serves on a number of board including as Chair of Economic Development Australia, and Foundation for Regional Renewal and Recovery’s  Advisory Board.

Javiera PERALES

Gerente de Concesiones

EMPRESA PORTUARIA VALPARAISO

Javiera Perales is a Civil Engineer in Geography from the University of Santiago de Chile and holds an MSc in Transport from Imperial College, London and an MBA from the University of Adolfo Ibañez, Chile. With more than 26 years of experience, until her arrival at Puerto Valparaíso, Javiera had developed her entire professional career in the private world for public infrastructure development companies, under the public-private participation model. At Puerto Valparaíso, since 2019, she has been responsible for the development of the business model for the expansion of the port terminals, with a strong focus on awareness processes with the community, seeking the agreements required for the execution of a project that harmonizes port interests and the other vocations of the heritage city of Valparaíso.

João Pedro FALCÃO DE CAMPOS

Architect

FALCAO DE CAMPOS ARQUITECTO

Moderator

Pedro GARCIA

Senior Architect

RESSANO GARCIA ARQUITECTOS

Pedro Ressano Garcia is an architect specialized in waterfront urban design, with a career that  combines research, teaching, and practice. Garcia is the author of "Tagus Platform – Back to the River, Lisbon’s waterfront and the 21st Century", and he coordinated the H2020 Marie Curie research project that published “Along the Waterfront – Cities in Europe Facing Climate Change” focused on resilience and climate change impact on waterfronts. He began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), he was Head of the School at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon (Portugal), and in 2020 started teaching at Université Laval in Quebec (Canada). His office in Lisbon received the Merit Award in the Hsinta Ecological Power Plant International Competition, Taiwan.