Francis Bogossian

He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Geomecânica S/A, in Brazil, and is its main partner. President of AEERJ - Association of Engineering Companies of Rio de Janeiro, since 1996. Vice-President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, from 1997 to 2001, Member of the Superior Council of the Brazilian Association of Civil Engineers — ABENC, Member of the Board of Directors of FIRJAN and of the Regional Council for Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy — CREA-RJ. Vice-President of the CBIC - Câmara Brasileira da Indústria da Construção -2005/05, Member of the Privatization and Concessions Commission — 2001/03 and of the Life Council. Member of the Board of the Associação Comercial do Rio de Janeiro — ACRJ and of the CBMAE-2002. Vice-President of the Social Service of the Construction Industry of Rio de Janeiro — SECONCI/RIO and member of its Fiscal Advisory Council.

Full Professor/ Ministry of Education and Culture-1980. Full Professor at the Escola de Engenharia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, from 1966 to 1978, Director of the School of Engineering and then Pro-Rector of Development of the Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Vice-President of the Associação Brasileira de Ensenho da Engenharia — ABENGE (1994/98), Member of the Council of Former Students and Graduates of UFRJ — Conselho de Minerva,

Full Member of: Academia Nacional de Engenharia - ANE and Academia Brasileira de Educação - ABE. Lifetime member of the Board of Directors of the ABMS Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Geotécnica, Director of the Zuzu Angel Institute. Fellow of ASCE — American Society of Civil Engineers. Member of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society and of the Editorial Consultants Panel of the journal GEOTECNIA. Member of the ISSMFE- International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, the International Tunneling Association and the International Society for Rock Mechanics. Member of the Brazilian Committee of Large Dams; Vice President of the Rio de Janeiro Engineering Club from 2000 to 2003;

Dozens of articles and technical papers at conferences, colloquiums and seminars, as an individual author or together with other authors, and hundreds of publications in newspapers and technical journals.

Engineer of the Year —1998- Clube de Engenharia - Rio de Janeiro — Brazil; Eminent Engineer of the Associação dos Antigos Alunos da Politécnica — Special Distinction from the Rio de Janeiro City Council for his work in favor of engineering; Manuel Rocha Award, from Associação dos Meccanica dos Solos-ABMS 1994/96.

Civil Engineer, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro — 1965.

Coopéraction Technique — ASTEF-ASMIC- Paris, 1969 — La Mécanique des Sols et des Barrages and National Laboratory of Civil Engineering — Lisbon Portugal — Soil Mechanics.

He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Geomecânia S/A, in Brazil, and is its main partner. President of AEERJ - Association of Engineering Companies of Rio de Janeiro, since 1996.