WWW.WA S .ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • SEP TEMBER 2022 17 International Center for Strategic Studies for Aquaculture; Executive Director of AWARD Ltda., Wurmann y Asociados Ltda, International Consultants in Aquaculture and Fisheries; FAO Consultant; an Associate Professor at the Department of Aquaculture and Agri-Food Resources, University of Los Lagos, Chile and Honorary Professor, at the Universidad Tecnológica del Mar de Tamaulipas, Mexico. He is also a Consultant for AQUA-SPARK, an Investment Fund for Aquaculture, in the Netherlands. He specializes in development planning, strategies, governance, markets, innovation and technology transfer, foresight, business development and investment projects in aquaculture and fisheries and is a consultant to companies, governments and international organizations in these fields. He has also specialized in research, development, innovation and entrepreneurship and is well regarded as an international lecturer in aquaculture and fisheries concerning international markets, development strategies, public policies, technological and industrial trends, governance, innovation, technology transfer, production diversification and related matters. Previously, Mr. Wurmann worked as the Executive President for the Chilean Strategic Salmon Program, a public-private initiative sponsored by CORFO (Chilean Production Development Corporation) to ensure the sustainability and long-term development of Chilean salmon farming, and as a Board Member for the National Aquaculture Program, Chile, a public initiative dealing with sustainable aquaculture development. He has also served as Senior Consultant for the Aquaculture Diversification Program in Chile (CORFO) and directed until recently the Program for the Development of the Cultivation of yellowtail kingfish in Chile. For over ten years, he headed Fundacion Chile’s Aquaculture/Fisheries Department, a very well-known and regarded technology transfer institution. He has also done extensive work for the FAO, preparing several studies, such as that on the State of Aquaculture in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020, together with two colleagues, and individually, the two previous versions in 2015 and 2010. Among several other assignments, he worked as an FAO economist on a fouryear FAO program in Mexico. He has also worked as a consultant for the OECD, the World Bank and UNIDO and several governmental bodies in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina and other countries, and was a member of the Technical Council for the Sea Urchin and Loco Seed Production and Restocking Program and of the Technical Committee of the Offshore Aquaculture Development Program in Chile. For two periods he has also been a member of the Executive Committee of IIFET, International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. At World Aquaculture 2021 (postponed to 2022) in Mérida, Mexico, World Aquaculture Society President Antonio Garza presented Lorenzo Juarez and Carlos Wurmann with the most prestigious award that can be bestowed by the World Aquaculture Society, the Honorary Life Award. The Society confers this award upon living individuals who have made longstanding and significant contribution in some field of aquaculture. The nomination must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Directors. This award was last conferred in 2019. LorenzoM. Juarez Lorenzo has worked more than 40 years in the aquaculture industry, managing aquaculture companies and organizations across production, R&D, sales, policy, regulation, and across geographies and farmed species of fish and shrimp. He has worked for industry, governments, and NGOs and is a Past-president and a Fellow of WAS. Lorenzo is also a Past-president of the Mexican Association of Shrimp Hatcheries and the founder and first president of the Mexican Association of Marine Fish Farmers. Among other positions, Lorenzo was Deputy Regional Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research at the Mexican National Institute of Fisheries in Yucatan; General Manager for the Sea Farms International shrimp hatchery in the Florida Keys; General Director of SyAqua Mexico’s operation in Mazatlán, Mexico; President and General Manager of Shrimp Improvement Systems (SIS); Deputy Director of NOAA’s Office of Aquaculture in Washington, DC; and CEO of Earth Ocean Farms and Sol Azul in La Paz, Mexico. Currently he is CEO of Sea Products Development (SPD), a Texas-based company specializing in shrimp genetics. Lorenzo has a M.S. degree in Aquaculture from Auburn University and a B.Sc. from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico. Throughout his career he has written extensively about his experiences with shrimp hatchery operations, selective breeding programs, offshore mariculture, and aquaculture and environmental sustainability. He has published numerous works in peer-reviewed journals and trade magazines, including two chapters in a 2010 book summarizing advances in shrimp farming and a chapter on shrimp farming sustainability in a recent book published in March 2022. Carlos Wurmann G. Carlos Wurmann G. was trained as a civil industrial engineer (Universidad de Chile) and economist (M.Sc., Hull University, UK). Mr. Wurmann is currently the President of CIDEEA, the The World Aquaculture Society Awards Honorary Life Membership to Lorenzo Juarez and Carlos Wurmann At World Aquaculture 2021 (postponed to 2022) in Mérida, Mexico, World Aquaculture Society President Antonio Garza presented Lorenzo Juarez and Carlos Wurmann with the most prestigious award that can be bestowed by the World Aquaculture Society, the Honorary Life Award.
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