Enrique Martínez Arciniegas

Civil Engineer graduated from the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería in Bogota, with studies in Project Evaluation from the Universidad Autónoma de México.

With his extensive professional career, he possesses an extensive experience in the field of road infrastructure. While in the former National Fund for Local Roads, he held posts such as: Regional manager of National Territories from the year 1982 to 1984, Regional Vale manager from 1984 to 1993, National Engineering Assistant manager, put in charge in 1993, Secretary General in 1994.

Likewise, he used to be undersecretary of Road Infrastructure for the Valle del Cauca's governorship between the year 2000 and the year 2003.

In the private sector, he has been involved in various projects, working as Manager, Advisor and Work inspector in the Valle del Cauca.

Here at INVIAS, this Civil engineer has already held posts such as Territorial Manager of the Valle del Cauca in 2005, Chief of the Emergency Attention and Prevention office since 2006, Assistant Manager of the National Roads Network, put in charge in 2007, and Technical Secretary General, put in charge in 2007 and 2008.

As chief of the INVIAS' Emergency Office, he has faced highly complex situations, such as the emergency of La Mojana's flood, the Paez's emergency due to the eruption of the Nevado del Huila's Volcano, which cut off all land communication with the area, and the emergencies caused by landslides on the road network, such as the landslide of Bendiciones, in the road from Buga to Buenaventura.

Functions of INVIAS' Manager

Act Number 2056 of 2003
(July 24)

Chapter I

Article 7. General Manager's office. The National Roads Institute's General Manager's office shall exercise the following functions:

7.1 It shall manage, coordinate, watch over and control the execution of the organization's or its personnel's functions or programs.

7.2 It shall carry the Institute's legal representation in every act and contract, which are necessary for the fulfillment of its functions and objectives.

7.3 It shall provide general and particular reports to the Head of State and to the Minister of Transportation, concerning the activities performed, the entity's general situation and the measures adopted that may affect the course of the Government's policies.

7.4 It shall make the decisions which provide the best defense for the entity's interests.

7.6 It shall watch over the executions of the dispositions and agreements of the Board of Directors.

7.7 It shall lead and forward the contractual activities and ordering of the entity's expenses, which it may delegate in accordance with the law.

7.8 It shall guide the making of plans and programs, preliminary budget plans for the entity's operation and investment, as well as for its modification proposals, and it shall submit them to the approval of the board of directors, along with the yearly assessment and financial statements, in accordance with the accountant and budgeting regulations in force.

7.9 It shall adopt the technical regulations related to the road, river, sea and railway transportation infrastructure.

7.10 It shall report the emergencies that may arise in the infrastructure at its charge.

7.11 It shall propose to the Directors Board the projects whose construction or maintenance are planned to have their funding come from the contributions produced by appreciation or toll taxes, as well as the latter's locations.

7.12 It shall distribute, by means of resolution, the national contribution of appreciation and establish, in general, the necessary resolutions and acts related with this process.

7.13 It shall appoint, give possession to, remove, promote and incorporate, in accordance with the relevant legal dispositions, the entity's personnel, as well as direct the personnel's administrative activity, dictate the correspondent acts and establish the general policies on these issues.

7.14 It shall create and organize, either permanently or temporarily, committees and work groups required within the organization, in order to ensure its operation.

7.15 It shall make the statute projects and their reforms, and submit them to the approval of the Board of Directors.

7.16 It shall work together with the National Concessions Institute, INCO, to coordinate the delivery of the infrastructure to concess.

7.17 It shall issue the required Administrative acts required in the development of the entity's technical and Administrative activities, in accordance to the dispositions in force.

7.18 It shall lead the disciplinary function in accordance to the Law.

7.19 It shall fulfill any other function imposed on it by legal dispositions and by the Directors Board.