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Panel Speakers
Ignasi Fainé De Garriga – CSR Director, Agbar
Ignasi Fainé De Garriga is 32 years and of Spanish origin. He obtained a Degree in Business Administration
in 2000 and was a Sufficiency researcher at the University of Barcelona 2003. He completed his MBA in
2006 at IESE.
Ignasi has developed his professional career in Agbar: first in a finance position and later in the strategy
area, always in relation with CSR.
Ignasi has been in charge of Agbar´s corporate reputation as the Deputy Director of institutional relations
and corporate reputation. At present, he is the CSR director. He is member of the executive committee of
Global Compact Spanish network and Foro de Reputación Corporativa. He is also member of the CSR committee
of Fundación Carolina, 22@network, Foment del treball, Global ecoforum, Colegio de censores jurados
y cuentas de Cataluña, Asociación Española de empresas de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (AEAS).
Joel Feldschuh – CEO, Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises
Joel Feldschuh is currently Chief Executive of Nesher Israel Cement Enterprise Limited.
From 2000 to 2003 he was CEO of Ganden Technology. From 1996 to 2000,
CEO of El Al Israeli Airlines. Prior to them, CEO of Champion Motors (VW Group import
ship in Israel).
Pedro Fernandez – Regulatory Affairs Manager, BAT
Pedro Fernandez was born on January 23rd 1975 in Madrid. He studied Business Management & Administration
in ICADE (1998) and has a Master in Marketing and Commercial Management from ESIC (2000).
After graduating from university he joined BP Oil España in a summer internship in 1998. He actively participated
in the coordination of several corporate projects. He managed relationships with insurance companies
and looked after cash optimization and forecast in Finance department. He moved to BP Gas España
in 2000, leading customer management and invoicing set up in the creation of the natural Gas commercialiser
of BP in Spain. He later took care of relations with the network & market operators (REE & OMEL)
related to the pilot power commercialiser created as a complement for the Gas core business.
In 2005 he moved back to BP Oil España as Business Development Manager where he led the bio fuels
implementation for BP in Spain, representing the company in Sector Associations and liaising with EU and
Spanish Governments in the development of National Renewable Energy Plan and related regulation. In
2010 he was appointed Press officer & Regulatory Affairs Manager BP Oil Spain.
In June 2010, he joined British American Tobacco (BAT) as Regulatory Affairs Manager for Iberia, leading
BAT regulatory engagement for Spain, Portugal, Canary Islands and Andorra’s tobacco market.
Pedro is married and has three daughters. He loves opera and classical music, is an amateur photographer,
has a passion for airplanes, is a keen scuba diver and enjoys surfing the sky with his telescope.
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