Juan Miguel Villar Mir, Corresponding Academician for Madrid of Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras of Spain (RACEF) and Chairman of OHL, has received in New York the Business Leader of the Year award granted by the Chamber of Commerce Spain-United States by the contribution of OHL in the renewal of U.S. infrastructure. Villar Mir case in the main award given to the Chamber the RACEF also Academician and CEO of La Caixa Isidro Fainé.

Founded in New York in 1959, the Chamber of Commerce urges Spain-US economic relations between the two countries and has become one of the organizations leading transatlantic business. The Chamber is a private non-profit organization that represents the interests of companies that have established or are interested in establishing trade and business relations between Spain and the United States.