Jose Javier Ripa is the Business Development Director at UL Renewables for Spain and Latin America. UL Renewables is a global leading independent service provider after integrating two historical brands (DEWI and AWS Truepower) under UL Group . Mr. Ripa is Industrial Engineer specialized in Mechanical Engineering with more than 12 years of experience in the Wind Industry occupying management positions in the fields of testing and technical consultancy. For 10 years, Mr. Ripa has combined his work in UL with being professor at the Public University of Navarra teaching hundreds of engineers in the specialty of Wind Energy. Mr. Ripa is a reference in the sector with several articles published in specialized magazines, member of a number of committees and with numerous performances as a speaker at international events and conferences.