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Dr. Antonio Trueba is the Chairman of the World Trade Center Madrid and
World Trade Center Seville, Spain. He is also the founder of both Centers
and principal shareholder. He was elected WTCA Board Member in 1992 and
served as Chairman of the World Trade Centers Association from 1998-2000.
Dr. Trueba has been active in the WTCA since 1981, when Madrid first became
a member.
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currently serves as a member of the Committee on Facilities as well as the
Committee on Planning and Finance.
Since 1988, he has been dedicated to fostering and developing the World
Trade Center concept in Spain by founding and participating in several WTC
projects including WTC Barcelona, WTC Bilbao, WTC Mallorca, WTC Vigo, WTC
Santander and WTC Valencia. |
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Dr. Trueba is also the founder of the Sevilla, Barcelona and Bilbao Teleports,
all members of the World Teleport Association (WTA) and he has been on the
Board of the World Teleport Association since 1992.
In 1994, Dr. Trueba was appointed Chairman of Urbis, the Real Estate Corporation
of the Santander Banking Group.
Dr. Trueba has a Ph.D. in Physics and has studied extensively in Spain,
France and the United States. He is a trustee of CIMA Foundation, the International Research Center at the University of Navarra in Spain where advanced research is done on heart diseases, Alzheimer's, Biotherapy and particular cancer studies.
Dr. Trueba's professional career includes the following positions: |
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1964-1968 Associate Professor, University of Madrid, concurrently
Professor of Physics at the Technical College of Telecommunication
Engineers and Naval Engineers;
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1968-1974
Associate Professor of Solid State Physics, University of Madrid,
Senior Research Fellow;
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1974-1979 Managing Director, Real Estate and Property Corporation,
Bank of Granada Group;
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1979-1988 Managing Director, Real Estate, Tourism and Property Division
of the Union Explosivos Rio Tinto Group, as well as Chairman of the
Investment Committee of the Rio Tinto Holding Group;
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1988-Present Chairman and CEO, WTC Madrid; Chairman, WTC Sevilla and
Teleport Sevilla; Board Member, WTC Bilbao; Teleport Barcelona and
Teleport Bilbao;
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1990-1993 Chairman of ADP 93 (project for the reutilization of the
EXPO 92 site, with over 30 national and international corporations
involved);
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1990-Present Board Member, WTC Mallorca, WTC Lisbon;
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1992-Present Board Member, WTC Vigo; 1994-Present Board Member, WTC
Santander;
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1994-Present Chairman of Inmobiliaria Urbis, S.A., Real Estate Corporation
of the Santander Banking Group.
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