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executive consultant in transport, operations
and infrastructure with a focus on airports, air-
lines, ports and rail and urban transport systems
and urban transport. During this period of his
career, he directed numerous strategic projects
involving concessions, corporate restructuring,
operations and cost optimisation, transactions,
acquisitions and PPP structuring for leading
firms in these sectors.
Ausaverri is an expert in the development,
improvement and expansion of businesses in
the transport and infrastructure sectors and the
management of complex transformation pro-
jects in these fields involving large teams of peo-
ple. Much of his work has focused the aviation
sector (airports and airlines). He was responsible
for defining, structuring and organising Indra’s
Smart Cities solutions initiative.
José Enrique de Ayala.
Brigadier General
of the Army, retired. Ayala holds diplomas from
the Spanish Army General Staff and Joint Staff
Colleges as well as a degree in International
Relations from the Centre for International
Studies. He has served as military attaché to the
Spanish Embassy in Germany and as Chief of
Staff of the Eurocorps.
An international policy analyst specialized in
the European Union he collaborates with nu-
merous media both written an audiovisual. He
is a member of the European Affairs Advisory
Committee of Fundación Alternativas.
Petra Bendel
is a Professor for Political
Science with a focus on migration, integration
and refugee policies at the Friedrich-Alexander
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She
has been the Academic Director and General
Manager of the international and interdiscipli-
nary Center for Area Studies since 1997 as well
as Cofounder and Vice President of the Center
for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN),
where she focuses on the human rights of refu-
gees and migrants.
Petra Bendel also works as a consultant: she
is the chairwoman of the Academic Advisory
Council of the Federal Office for Migration and
Refugees (BAMF), member of the Expert Council
of German Foundations on Integration and
Migration (SVR) and a consultant for numerous
expert commissions on European, national and
regional levels.
José Candela Castillo
is a member of the
European Affairs Council of the Fundación
Alternativas
.
He has been an official of the
European Commission since 1986 to 2014 as
Member of the Cabinet of the Vice-President of
the Commission and as Head of the Units of
Application of Community Law and Governance
in the General-Secretariat of the Commission.
He took part in the Group of Commissioners re-
sponsible for preparing the Maastricht Treaty in
1992, chaired by Jacques Delors and was editor
of the European Commission’s
White Paper on
European Governance
in 2001 and Assistant to
the representation of the European Commission
in the Convention on the future of the Union
that drafted the European Constitution in 2003.
He has also been an advisor to the Spanish
Secretary of State for the European Union. He
has given numerous courses and lectures and
published several chapters of collective books
and articles on European Union Law and
Governance in journals such as the
Revue du
Marché Unique Européen
, the
Revue du Marché
Commun
et de l’Union Européenne
or the
Revista Española de Derecho Europeo
. José
Candela Castillo is Professor of Philosophy of
Law, Morals and Politics at the Faculty of Law of
the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.