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Isabel Rigol
Isabel Rigol Savio is a graduate from the School of Architecture, Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría (ISPJAE), Havana, 1968, who received post- graduate courses on Urban Design, Urban Rehabilitation, Physical Planning and Historic Preservation in Cuba as well as Conservation of Historic Towns at ICCROM, Rome. She has a Master Degree and a PhD from ISPJAE, Havana.
Currently, Isabel Rigol is a professor at the PhD Course on Heritage Management sponsored by the University of Granada , Spain , the Havana School of Architecture and the San Jeronimo University in Old Havana. She also teaches Heritage Management in the Master Course on Territorial and Urban Planning and Historic Preservation at both post graduate and undergraduate levels.
Mrs. Rigol has worked as a consultant for the UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2006 to 2008 in order to implement a Capacity Building Project for Cultural Heritage in the Caribbean ( CCBP) . With this purpose, she has been part of the team that worked out a training program with modules on World Heritage Convention, Historic Towns and Cultural Landscapes, among the main subjects. In 2008 she was invited to offer a CCBP course in the Dominican Republic.
As the founder and Director of the National Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (a UNESCO/ UNDP project) in Havana, from 1982 to 1997, she led training programs as well as important conservation projects for monumental districts and buildings.
Rigol has lectured extensively in Europe( Instituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia , Royal Institute of British Architects and Leeds University, UK) , Institute of Fine Arts in Hamburg, etc ), United States ( Tulane University, University of Pennsylvania, and others ) Latin America and the Caribbean.
Isabel Rigol has been awarded by the Cuban Ministry of Culture, the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education, the Pan-American Federation of Architects and the World Monuments Fund and twice by the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
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Gustavo Araoz
Gustavo Araoz, a native of Cuba and citizen of the United States, is an architect whose 30-year career has focused on the management and conservation of the historic built environment. His commitment to serve the professional conservation community and to broaden international cooperation to preserve the world's cultural heritage earned him the presidency of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 2008. Prior to that, he served two terms as Vice President of ICOMOS. From1995 to 2009 Mr Araoz also served as Executive Director of the United States Committee for ICOMOS, of which he is currently a Senior Advisor.
From his position as an ICOMOS officer, Mr Araoz has worked extensively with UNESCO on many issues and initiatives related to the protection of Cultural Heritage. His duties as head of the ICOMOS delegation to the World Heritage Committee meetings and Chair of the ICOMOS World Heritage evaluation panel have given him a thorough understanding of all aspects of the World Heritage Convention.
As a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught conservation theory, site management, and for five years he was in charge of the urban conservation studio. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland, the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the Universidad Católica de Salta in Argentina, Brandenburg Technical University in Germany, and the International Centers for Heritage Conservation in the Canary Islands and Buenos Aires. In the United States, he lectured at the University of Massachusetts, Roger Williams University, Carnegie-Mellon, Columbia University, the University of Florida, the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, Mary Washington University, Princeton University, Clemson University and the College of Charleston. He is also a regularspeaker at internationalconferences and symposia throughout the world and an avid writer in professional journals and periodicals.
His practical experience includes surveys and conservation and research projects in the United States and the Western Hemisphere for private clients as well as the US National Park Service, the US Departments of State and of Defense, the Organization of American States, World Monuments Fund, the City of Buenos Aires, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, the Panama Canal Authority and the Governments of El Salvador and Paraguay.
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José Courreau
José Courrau Ph.D. is an independent consultant, with more than 25 years of international working experience in biodiversity conservation from different perspectives. José Courrau worked as an area manager for the Costa Rican National Park Service, for various universities and international conservation NGOs (UNESCO, IUCN, WWF, TNC, CI, among others) and lately also as a consultant. He is currently an active member of the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) as a co-director of the management effectiveness taskforce. From 2001 until 2005, he was part of the team that led the Enhancing our Heritage Project. This project, coordinated by the World Heritage Center, The University of Queensland and WCPA, developed a tool for the assessment of management effectiveness in World Heritage Sites. This tool was introduced through training and direct implementation in 10 World Heritage Sites around the world (including South Africa, Tanzania, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Honduras, and Venezuela).
Based on the combination of an academic background and ample experience in the field of conservation, José Courrau offers a rich knowledge about key issues of biodiversity conservation, especially in the field of protected area management.
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