On 19 May, at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), the Chair of Port Economics, a joint project of the APV and the University of Valencia (UV), which will be developed within the framework of the Institute of International Economics (IEI), was established.
With the presence of the President of the APV, Dr. D. Aurelio Martínez Estévez, and the Vice-Rector for Innovation and Transfer of the UV, Dr. Dª Rosa María Donat Beneito, the Joint Committee of the Chair appointed the IEI researcher Dr. D. Vicente Juan Pallardó López as Director of the Chair. Then, the lines of work to be developed by the Chair team were established, as well as the dissemination activities that will be carried out to transmit to society in general, and to economic and academic agents specialised in the sector in particular, the results derived from these lines of work.
They are members of the Joint Committee of the Chair:
a.- As representatives of the Port Authority of Valencia:
- Mª Jesús Calvo Andrés, Head of the Economic-Financial Department
- Juan Manuel Díez Orejas, Head of Strategic Planning and Innovation
- Manuel José García Navarro, Head of Business Intelligence
b.- As representatives of the Universitat de València- Estudi General:
- Dr. Rosa María Donat Beneito, Vice-Rector for Innovation and Transfer
- Dr. Amparo Cervera Taulet, Director of the Institute of International Economics
- Dr. Vicente Juan Pallardó López, IEI researcher. Director of the Chair
