Hector Manuel Moya-Cessa, a professor at Instituto Nacional de AstrofÃ­sica, Ã“ptica y ElectrÃ³nica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico, has won the 2006 ICO/ICTP Award. The cermony took place in the ICTP Main Lecture Hall during the Winter College on Quantum and Classical Aspects of Information Optics, 30 January - 10 February. Ari Friberg, president of ICO, presided. Moya-Cessa is being honoured for the high level quality of his research activities on the foundation of quantum optics and for his active involvement in organizing research and training activities in this field throughout Latin America.