Panama City, Panama – Agustin Arias is the Director of Engineering and Projects for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). Since 2001 his primary responsibility has been overseeing the $5.25-billion expansion to the historic waterway.
He holds a mechanical and industrial engineer by training, he holds masters degrees from both the University of Missouri and the University of Miami. In his quarter-century working for the canal authority, Arias has been involved with evaluating many of the waterway’s improvement projects as well as the execution of the major capitol investment projects.