Jose Luis Inglese
Aguas y Saneamientos Argentinos S.A., President

Accounts  for an  extensive career  of  more  than  40  years  and  is  currently  President  of  AySA, company that provides water and sanitation in the City of Buenos Aires and 26 Municipalities of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, area that includes 14 million inhabitants.

Graduated with honours at the Engineering School of the University of Buenos  Aires,  Argentina,  he  obtained  the  Postgraduate  diploma  in  Sanitary  Engineering through  a  scholarship  of  Obras  Sanitarias  de  la  Nación  in  1973.  For  his  background  in Sanitary Engineering, he was awarded the National Academy Prize “Ing. Enrique Butty”.

In his professional career he directed more than 750 studies and projects for the provision of  water,  sanitation  and  environmental  improvements  in  Latin  America  and  Africa,  with financing from the IDB/WB and other multilateral credit agencies. He has been speaker at Seminars  on  sanitary  services  and  benchmarking  in  Sao  Paulo  (Brazil),  Tegucigalpa (Honduras), San José (Costa Rica), Mendoza (Argentina), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lima (Perú) and Cartagena (Colombia), besides presiding the Argentine Congresses of Sanitation and  Environment  in  1997,1999  and  2002  and  the  Congress  and  Exhibition  of  the International Water Association (IWA) – Water and Development in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017).

It  should  be  noted  that  he  has  been  President  of  AIDIS  Argentina  and  Vice  President  of

AIDIS Interamericana as well as co-creator of the Junior Water Prize.