Please congratulate João Dias for his election as the Director for Region 9, which includes Europe and Africa. As RD9, Joao will participate as a member of the Membership Advisory Committee (MAC) and support section leaders in the region.

Mr. Dias is a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) by AACE International, serving as an officer at AACE International Baltic Section and currently serving as a Director of AACE International Region 9 – Europe and Africa.

Mr. Dias has developed his academic interests in heavy infrastructures through the integrated master’s degree in Civil Engineering. Further interests in construction management and productivity rates led him to complete a postgraduate diploma in project management, and currently he is developing further interests in data science.

He is also a chartered Civil Engineer with approximately 13 years’ experience within the engineering and construction industry. Throughout this period his responsibilities included planning, scheduling, cost estimation and control, and change management. These have been performed in some of the world’s largest construction companies and in large-scale international infrastructure projects at tender and/or construction stages.

His whole career has been developed in several different countries in Europe (Portugal, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark and Finland), Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Congo and Niger), Central America and the Caribbean, where he had the chance to be the counterpart of key stakeholders. These were from major contractors and subcontractors, governmental clients, international consultants, among others, which has given him a truly global perspective of the construction markets and business.

Goals and Objectives

• Consolidate current sections in the region, promoting networking opportunities.
• Promote the creation of new sections in the region.
• Add greater added value to the memberships in the region, through integration activities between sections and members, as for example: shared webinars, workshops, regular communications, etc.
• Seek greater benefits for the members of the region in relation to third party conferences and workshops, and potential discounts.
• Implement a clear and integrated marketing strategy to attract new members in the sections of the region, showing the benefits of belonging to the organization.
• Promote partnerships with other key organizations/associations, universities, and relevant working groups.
• Promote the AACE TCM Framework and AACE Recommended Practices across the industry and academic institutions.
• Facilitate the communication between young professionals in the region and the Rising Professionals Committee.