Luis Hernando Gomez, Founder Member presso CLIM - IT Climate Monitoring for Risk Reduction - Italy

Luis Hernando Gomez, Founder Member presso CLIM - IT  Climate Monitoring for Risk Reduction - Italy

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q Mr. Gomez graduated as a Civil Engineer at the Industrial University of Santander - Colombia (1988). He has obtained a Diploma in Hydrology and Water Resources Management at the Polytechnic of Milan – Italy (1989), completed a high level course on Hydro-meteorology at the University of Perugia – Italy (1993), successively obtained a Master on Engineering of Water Resources at the National University of Colombia – Colombia (1999).

q Mr. Gomez has over 25 years of experience in the fields of hydrology, hydro-informatics and hydro-meteorological monitoring networks. He has begun his career in 1990 as researcher for TecnoIdroMeteo (TIM), a public - private consortium sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Science and Technology to bring together Universities and Industry to develop high technological environmental products, in particular an integrated real-time flood forecasting systems based on satellite, weather radar, ground monitoring networks and distributed hydrological models. Within this framework has participated in different Italian and European research projects related to application of advanced technologies to water resources management.  

q            Extensive international experience in projects related with the implementation of the EU WFD - Water Framework Directive. Most projects have been done following key international guidelines as: EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC, UN ISDR – International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction, WMO HWRP – Hydrology and Water Resources Programme, WMO – DRR Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, etc. 

q High skills on Information Technologies (IT) applied to Water Resources including hydro-informatics, hydrological simulation models, Hydro-GIS, Data Base Management, DSS – Decision Support Systems and Web-based data dissemination

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Industry experience

Education: M.B.A

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 20 years or above

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