Luis Ovsejevich

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From left: Luis Ovsejevich, Gregorio Klimovsky [es], and Gregorio Weinberg [es] Gregorio Klimovsky - Premios Konex 1996.jpg
From left: Luis Ovsejevich, Gregorio Klimovsky  [ es ], and Gregorio Weinberg  [ es ]

Luis Ovsejevich (Buenos Aires, born September 13, 1941) is an Argentine lawyer and businessman, founder and president of the Konex Foundation, from its creation in 1980. Through it the Konex Awards [1] have been granted annually since 1980 to personalities and institutions standing out for his, her or its achievements in 10 different fields. He is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, he exerted teaching from 1962 to 1974 in the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. In the 1960s he was a law professor in University of Buenos Aires and in University of Morón. He also is a piano teacher.

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He made various cultural contributions, such as "Let's go to the Music" since 1991, which consist in operas, ballets, concerts, tango and comedy adapted specially for children; he open Konex Cultural City (Ciudad Cultural Konex) in 2005, it is a space where all type of cultural expressions coexist with the objective to contribute to the cultural and artistic enrichment of the community; [2] since 2015 he produce the Konex Festival of Classical Music in Ciudad Cultural Konex.

As a businessman, he is the founder and former president of the Konex-Canon Company from Argentina, created in 1969; in 1998 he transferred the total of the shareholding package to Canon USA. [3]

He was General Director, ad honorem, of the Colón Theater in 1998 and 1999. [4] [5] He was the President of the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires in the 2017-2018 period.

He carried out the project of restoration and renovation of the Auditorium of the University of Buenos Aires, completed in April 2019 with the support of companies and individuals who acted as benefactors.

Publications

Awards and distinctions

In 1997, in recognition of his long career as creator of the Konex Awards (18 years of awards), all those who had been awarded (1800) and jurors (360) up to that point, paid tribute to him at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. The coordination was carried out by the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES). [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "40 años de los Premios Konex: historia y anécdotas del prestigioso galardón argentino". Infobae (in Spanish).
  2. ↑ "La Ciudad Cultural Konex cumple años". La Nación (in Spanish).
  3. ↑ "Los japoneses llegan a Konex-Canon". Clarín (in Spanish).
  4. ↑ Un Domingo para todos – La Nación
  5. ↑ ""El teatro es una burocracia"". La Nación (in Spanish).
  6. ↑ "Algunos premios recibidos por la Fundación Konex y/o su Presidente Dr. Luis Ovsejevich". Fundación Konex.
  7. ↑ "Luis Ovsejevich, presidente de la Fundación Konex, Personalidad Destacada de la Cultura". Clarín (in Spanish).


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