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Members of the Board of Directors - 2012
The new Board of Directors 2013 will be announced soon
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- Ray Sterling, President (U.S.A.)
- Dr.
Sterling is a Professor Emeritus at Louisiana Tech University. He is
the current President of ACUUS and Vice Chairman of the Committee on
Underground Space of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space
Association. From 1995 to 2009 he was the Contractors¡¯ Educational
Trust Fund Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the
Trenchless Technology Center at Louisiana Tech University. Previously,
from 1977 to 1995, he was the founding director of the Underground
Space Center at the University of Minnesota. He is a Past Chairman of
the International Society for Trenchless Technology and for the past 10
years has served as a Senior Editor of the international journal
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology.
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 Dimitris C.
Kaliampakos, Vice-president (Greece)
Mr.
Dimitris Kaliampakos is a professor in Environmental
Mining and
the Director of the Laboratory of Mining and Environmental Technology
located at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is
also Member of the Board of Directors in the Lavrion Technological and
Cultural Park and consultant in Mining Enterprises
and in Environmental Protection since more than 20 years.
Until
now he published more than 130 papers
and 3 books in international peer-reviewed Journals and
Conferences Proceedings. He is the Vice President of ACUUS
since
2007 and was the President of the Organizing Committee of the
11th International Conference of ACUUS, held in
Athens in
2007.
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 Yuan Si, Secretary General (China)
Prof.
Yuan Si was promoted as an Associate Professor at the Tsinghua
University of Beijing in 1989 and a full Professor in 1991. He was
appointed to be the head of the Department of Civil Engineering in
1998, the first Dean of the School of Civil Engineering in 2000 and the
Vice President of Tsinghua University in 2008. He is
also Vice-president of China Civil Engineering Society (CCES),
member of the Standing-committee of National People's Congress of China
(NPC) and the Vice Director of the Environmental Protection and
Resources Conservation Committee, NPC, China. He is the Secretary
General of ACUUS since 2007.
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 Takeshi
Kurokawa, Director and
Fellow (Japan)
Dr.
Takeshi Kurokawa is the President of the Institute of
Behavioral
Sciences (IBS) of Japan. The Institute is a comprehensive nonprofit
research organization whose aim is to contribute public welfare in
areas falling within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications Agency and of the Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, and Transport. Dr. Kurokawa is also the Acting
Chairperson of the Urban Underground Space Center of Japan (USJ). He
was the President of ACUUS from 1998 to 2007 and he is still
member of the Board as the Director for the Asian region.
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 Evasio
Lavagno, Director (Italy)
Mr.
Evasio Lavagno is professor at Politecnico di Torino with teaching
activities in graduate and post-graduate courses at the Energy School
of the Engineering Faculty. He was Dean of the Energy School from 1993
to 2003. He is also Director of the Italian Branch of the European
post-Graduate Master in Energy, Technology and Environment
and Director of the Energy Analysis and Modelling Laboratory
(LAME). From 2000 to 2007, Prof. Lavagno was Vice-president of ACUUS
and he is still member for Europe of the Board of Directors, where he
devoted specific activities to continuing education programmes (Post
Graduate Master Course TRUE ¨C Training for Underground Environment) and
to the development of studies in the field of the underground urbanism.
He was the President of the Organizing Committee of the the 9th
International Conference of ACUUS held in Torino in November 2002.
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 Qian Qihu, Director (China)
Prof.
Qian Qihu is a Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
and a distinguished professor at the PLA University
of
Science and Technology in Nanjing, China. He was vice
President of
ISRM (International Society for Rock and Mechanics), and now
he serves as the President of Chinese Society for Rock
Mechanics
and Engineering (CSRME). He acts also since 2001 as a Director of
ACUUS for Asia.
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 - Jacques
Besner, General manager (Canada)
Jacques
Besner is a consultant in urban underground space planning. With a
background in architecture and urban planning, he worked 30 years as a
municipal planner at the City of Montr¨¦al and was in charge of the Underground
City development.He was one of
the founding member of ACUUS, with Ray Sterling, and its Secretary
General from 1997 to 2007. In 1997, he was President of the Organizing
Committee of the 7th International Conference of ACUUS in Montreal. He
is now acting as the General manager of the organization.
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