Alberto Merlado

RESUME

ALBERTO MERLADO

Business administrator from EAFIT University with a Master degree in Industrial Administration of the Universidad del Valle. He studied during three years Psychoanalysis in the Centro Psicoanalitico Sigmund Freud of Cali. Investigator of Ken Wilber´s work and one of the Founders of the Transpersonal Psychology whose dissemination he pioneered in Colombia. Specialists in systemic decision making referred by Edgar Morin´s Theory of Complex Thinking.

Founding member of the Association of Transpersonal Humanism -SASANA-: a learning community who aims to facilitate the evolution of consciousness in society in all the fields of the human activity through an integrated educational process and the personal human development of its members. He is in charge of the Spiritual Epistemology theme.

He considers himself basically an EDUCATOR. During his entire career his work has been oriented to facilitate individual and collective processes in the human development. His world combines theory with practice. He has never stopped representing as an educator and simultaneously as a consultant or organizational manager. He feels proud of not teaching what he has not experienced.

He was Dean and founder of the Administration Faculty in Universidad del Norte, Director of the Business Consultancy Program of the Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (National Service for Learning) – SENA- (for its spanish acronym) in the Atlantic coast; National Director of Human Development at Carvajal S.A. and Director of the Master Administration Program at the EAFIT University in Cali.

He worked as a private consultant in organizational development during 10 years in Cali. Later became the Administrative Vice-president of the Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos - ECOPETROL where he worked during 12 consecutive years. His responsibilities included managing the relations with the Union Sindical Obrera (Labor Union) – USO (for its Spanish acronym). He was one of the creators of the Development and Peace Program of the Magdalena Medio region, currently in operation, which is built of the application of the Human Developments Scale Principles whose prime representative in Latin America is Max Neef. Furthermore he lead the Congress for Peace which was developed in conjunction with the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, which resulted in the current Civil Society’s Permanente Assembly for Peace.

He left ECOPETROL in 1998 and became member of the Administration Faculty in Universidad de los Andes as full time professor. He then retired in 2004 to become the General Manager of Empresa de Acueducto de Bogota during Luis Eduardo Garzon’s administration, his union counterpart in ECOPETROL. From 2004 to 2008 he coordinated the Labor Consertation Program of the business guild led by the Asociacion Nacional de Industriales de Colombia ANDI – (for its Spanish acronym) and Labor Unions, financed by the employers and Swedish unions.

Author of multiple papers in the Human Development field published in university journals, specialized in administration, some of these papers where included as chapters in several books written on human resources corporate management.

First winner of the Life and Work Prize of the Colombia Association for Human Resources Management – ACRIP- (for its Spanish acronym).

Nominated by PORTAFOLIO readers as one of the best managers in the country for his outstanding work as manager of Empresa de Acueducto de Bogota in the year 2004.

Postgraduate program´s visiting professor in the Administration Faculty of the Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Norte of Barranquilla.

He was appointed by the Mayor of Bogota, Gustavo Petro, as General Manager of the Empresa de Acueducto de Bogota, for a second time in march 2013; non the less he continuous to work as visiting professor of the postgraduate programs in the Administration Faculty at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Norte in the Human Scale Administration Area and Management Skills with emphasis on Conflict Management. He is also member of the Board of Director of the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota - ETB and of the Empresa de Energia de Bogota- EEB- on behalf of the Mayor of Bogota. D.C.