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Dr. Antonio Trueba
WTC Madrid / WTC Seville
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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.

He 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.

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:
  • 1964-1968 Associate Professor, University of Madrid, concurrently Professor of Physics at the Technical College of Telecommunication Engineers and Naval Engineers;

  • 1968-1974 Associate Professor of Solid State Physics, University of Madrid, Senior Research Fellow;

  • 1974-1979 Managing Director, Real Estate and Property Corporation, Bank of Granada Group;

  • 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;

  • 1988-Present Chairman and CEO, WTC Madrid; Chairman, WTC Sevilla and Teleport Sevilla; Board Member, WTC Bilbao; Teleport Barcelona and Teleport Bilbao;

  • 1990-1993 Chairman of ADP 93 (project for the reutilization of the EXPO 92 site, with over 30 national and international corporations involved);

  • 1990-Present Board Member, WTC Mallorca, WTC Lisbon;

  • 1992-Present Board Member, WTC Vigo; 1994-Present Board Member, WTC Santander;

  • 1994-Present Chairman of Inmobiliaria Urbis, S.A., Real Estate Corporation of the Santander Banking Group.


 
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