Annual Report 2010 - AdP

Board of Directors
Executive Directors
Chairman - Pedro Eduardo Passos da Cunha Serra
Born Lisbon: 9 June 1946.
Academic Qualifications
Bachelor and Masters Degrees in civil engineering from the Higher Technical Institute (IST-Instituto Superior Técnico), Lisbon.
Professional Career
- He began his career in 1969 at COBA, S.A., a Portuguese engineering consultancy, first as a hydraulics engineer and subsequently
as general director (1982/87) and managing director (1984/87). He was involved in planning and building hydroelectric projects,
dams and their related water systems as well as in hydrological studies and the planning of water resources. He left Coba in 1989
to become an independent consultant.
- In 1994, he was appointed president of Portugal’s Water Institute, in which role he participated actively in the negotiations that led
to the signing of the Albufeira Portuguese-Spanish Agreement on Shared River Basins (1998) and in the preparatory work for the
European Union’s Framework Directive for the water sector.
- He was president of the National Commission for Major Dams and the National Commission for Irrigation and Drainage as well
as the River Basin Councils for the Minho, Douro, Tagus and Guadiana rivers. He has been a member of the National Water Council
since 1994.
- In 1999, he was appointed president of the Regulating Institute for Water and Waste and presided over the setting up of the new
body. In March 2001, he became president of the Portuguese Road Institute and a number of other road transport bodies. In
November 2002, he returned to his private consulting practice.
- In 2006, he was invited by the minister for the environment, territorial planning and regional development to coordinate and
oversee the revision of Portugal’s Strategic Plan for Water Supply and Wastewater Sanitation.
- He has regularly published articles on water law and the regulation of the water sector. He also is also a lecturer on postgraduate
courses in these as well as water planning and applied hydrological statistics.
Current Responsibilities
He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of AdP - Águas de Portugal, SGPS, S.A. and of Boards of Directors of AdP - Águas
de Portugal Internacional - Serviços Ambientais, S.A. since May 2005.
Member - António Manuel da Silva Branco
Born Angola: 16 May 1946.
Academic Qualifications
Degree in Chemical and Industrial Engineering from the Higher Technical Institute (IST-Instituto Superior Técnico), Lisbon.
Professional Career
- He began his career at Hidroprojecto, S.A., where, from 1974 to 1978, he was a member of the Environmental Technology and
Processes Department, working as a designer and project leader in the following areas: drinking water treatment; treating water
for industrial uses; urban wastewater treatment; industrial wastewater treatment; and the collection, processing and final disposal
of urban refuse.
- From 1978 to 1980 he was general director of Hidrocontrato, a company owned by Hidroprojecto that builds water treatment
and sanitation installations. He headed Hidroprojecto’s operations in Angola in 1981 and 1982.
- From 1983 to 1987 he returned to his post as general director of Hidrocontrato, a position he accumulated with his role as
assistant director of production and sales at Hidroprojecto. From 1988 to 1992, being one of the investors who had acquired
Hidrocontrato, he took over the management of the company.
- In 1993 he joined Parque Expo 98 as a manager of one of the companies belonging to the group and participated actively in all
the negotiations leading to the setting up of Valorsul, S.A., which he joined in 1994 as chief executive, a post that he held until
March 2000. From March 2000 to September 2002 he was managing director of Parque Expo 98.
- In September 2002, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of Valorsul, a post which he accumulated with his position
as chief executive.