Dr. Alejandro C. Arroyo Welbers

With 35+ years of field experience in global operations across isolated settings in emerging markets, my expertise being global transportation operations and marketing; project global procurement and logistics; project stakeholder management; project risk management; infrastructure management; indigenous communities management; environmental management; and economic regional integration strategies. After 20 years of professional experience in global logistics from the shipowner’s perspective I founded SOUTHMARK LOGISTICS aiming at providing logistic services for projects across the Americas and the emerging world, all of which led me to participate in numerous projects in the extractive and infrastructure industries around the world.

The areas I have been active across Latin America, Africa, and SE Asia encompass onshore and offshore oil & gas; onshore and offshore mining; renewable energies (wind / solar / hydro / nuclear / geothermal / marine); infrastructure; transportation; automobile manufacturing; foodstuff plants and associated infrastructure. All these industries needed efficient operations and suitable infrastructure to successfully operate in poor-infrastructure countries and regions, these activities representing almost another 20 years of field experience.