{"id":11469,"date":"2025-02-18T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoquest-group.com\/?page_id=11469"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:50:54","slug":"madeleine-centeno-lappas-head-legal-compliance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geoquest-group.com\/about\/leadership\/madeleine-centeno-lappas-head-legal-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Centeno Lappas &#8211; Head of Legal and Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-right in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:right;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\" style=\"margin-left:25px;float:right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"MadeleineCL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geoquest-group.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/MadeleineCL.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.geoquest-group.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/MadeleineCL.png\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-11468\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20300%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geoquest-group.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/MadeleineCL-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.geoquest-group.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/MadeleineCL.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:26px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">MADELEINE CENTENO LAPPAS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span data-teams=\"true\">Head of Legal and Compliance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><span data-teams=\"true\">Madeleine Centeno Lappas became Head of Legal and Compliance for Geoquest in 2024. Madeleine is an Argentinean attorney and certified translator with an international professional experience mainly in construction and renewable energies. She completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Chicago and a graduate degree at <i>Universit\u00e9 de Paris II Panth\u00e9on-Assas<\/i>. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese and joined Geoquest and Freyssinet as Legal Manager in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:16px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:var(--awb-color6);--awb-border-top:1px;--awb-border-style:solid;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"\/about\/leadership\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">&lt;&lt; Back to Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:52px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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