Jose Alberto Garibaldi.Director, Public Policy and Political Economy MPP, Georgetown; He studied Philosophy, Economics and Law PUCP, Perú. 20 years of experience in climate policy, adviser to multiple LAC, Europe and Asia governments on climate policy, and climate finance to the ADB, AfDB, and Eastern Europe, and the World Bank and the IADB, where he helped establish climate funds. ICE and energy scenario modelling, with multiple research institutions; innovation and finance for WEF, Mexico and Mission Innovation; participated in NDC elaboration in Mexico, the DoM. Rep., Kenya, and Bangladesh; negotiated 16 UNFCCC COPs; advised the presidency of several COPs. He has had high level positions in government in Mexico, and has published multiple books and articles on climate, institutional economics, and energy.
Gilberto Arias, Program Director and Management; General project support and lead on human resource management; experience in Transportation, Finance and Communications. Economist (Omicron Delta Epsilon), U. of Virginia, LLM, Cambridge, and studies in business administration, LSE and Northwestern University. Work on urban development and sustainable development in national, regional and international contexts, and complex issue communications and engagement. He has been an Ambassador the Court of St. James, and a Head of Delegation or advisor, IMO, UNFCCC and OECD. He also has supported Energeia work at UNFCCC, and has led as Energeia alliances counterpart (including with Climate Analytics, WRI and OECD Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)). In other capacities, he has also Directed a private bank, a national Newspaper, practiced law, and various other private sector endeavours.
Omar Ramírez-Tejada, Regional Coordinator and Country Manager, Dominican Republic; Biologist, has more than 20 years of experience in Environment and Climate Change, with a Master’s in international public law and International Relations, a specialist in territorial planning of natural parks and protected areas, diploma in Municipal Management, and Managerial and Environmental Capacities. Former Secretary of State of Environment and Natural resources and Executive Vice President of the National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism, and former Head of the Dominican Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and former Secretary of State for the Environment and Natural Resources. Knowledge of Dominican environmental and municipal legislation for countries of the Caribbean Region and Central America and the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEA). Experience in organizing national and international events and the elaboration of public politics about environment, conservation of natural resources, climate change and sustainability.
Jean Acquatella,Sectoral experts coordinator, PHd, MA; Environmental economics, Tufts, MA Universidad Metropolitana, and BA, Economics, Stanford. Work on financial instruments, Environmental financial models, and Has worked in projects with Energeia with UNDP, UNEP, UN ECLAC, UN ESCAP and ASEAN on work on Business models, Climate Investment, and Policy development.
Antonio Perez MA, Sectoral experts coordinator, joint MIT / Harvard program, MA, University of Andalusia, Graduates Diplomas (Universidad Iberoamericana, UNAM), BA, Engineering, UNAM. Energy Planning and Regulatory, Clean Energy Projects, Mitigation, Climate Change Policy, Emission Reduction, Energy Management Systems, Transparency and Fight against Corruption
Grit Schmalisch.Expert in climate policy dialogues in public and private spaces, specializing in the facilitation of agreements and their written expression, having supported the presence of the International Chamber of Commerce and BINGOs (private sector and industrial NGOs) in the UNFCCC for COPs 19, 20 and 21. She has developed meetings and workshops with the Global Compact Network and drafted his reports, as well as supporting the management and organization of international meetings.
Selected Associated Experts
Phil HardwickFinance ExpertPhil has more than 20 years of experience in Green Finance and the Energy Sector. During his professional career he has worked in different size transactions and performed consulting services in Green Financing, Low Carbon Economy and schemes that promote the reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. He participates in consultancies with Governments in Europe, Asia and Latin America and also works in commercial projects advising companies on best practices in Sustainable Financing. He is the international representative of the organization Leaders for Climate Change.
Chris Hope, Integrated Analysis Modelling, BA (Oxon), Physics, 1st class, 1975. MA (Oxon), 1979.PhD (Cambridge), 1980; Emeritus Reader in Policy Modelling at Cambridge Judge Business School, and is part of the Schools and Economics & Policy subject group. Chris is a world leading expert on Integrated Climate and Economic Analysis (ICEA) modelling. He uses mathematical models to aid public and private decision-making. He has worked for more than two decades mainly on critical synthesis of information from the science and economics of climate change. This reduced-form simulation and combination of scientific and economic information under uncertainty is difficult and highly original, and something that has only been attempted by a handful of research groups around the world. Chris was the lead ICEA modeller for the Stern Review, the leading modeller for Energeia´s EoB, ATBO and ACT2015 projects, and is a co chair and lead author at the IPCC, an advisor to the house of lords, the Climate Change Committee, and multiple official UK reports and breakthrough. Through Energeia he has also advised multiple governments and negotiation groups in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Manuel Estrada, Senior Land Use Expert. An eminent climate policy and land use expert, he has twenty years of experience, mainly working in Latin America. His core expertise centers on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), and Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU). Manuel is currently based in Murcia, Spain. Manuel is currently a member of the Roster of Experts on Annex I inventories and National Communications of the UNFCCC.
Arturo Brandt, Environmental Law; Lawyer and Magister LLM in Environmental Law at Vermont Law School, United States. More than 15 years of experience in Green Markets, Economics and Development of Low Carbon Projects. Extensive experience in trading, intermediation and consulting on public policies for the public, private and intergovernmental organizations (CEPAL) for clients in Europe and Latin America. Elaboration of projects to reduce greenhouse gases in Latin America. Visiting Professor at Universities in Chile and Associate Professor of the Chair of Global Energy and Public Policies at Vermont Law School. (Law School Ranked N 1 in Environmental Matters in the United States).
María Paz De La Cruz.Project Structuring Expert; She is an Industrial Civil Engineer from the Universidad de Concepción and has an MSc. in Carbon Management from the University of Edinburgh, has 20 years of experience in international development banks, renewable energy organizations, government institutions, and generating companies in Chile and the United Kingdom. She has worked in the German Development Bank KfW in the promotion of renewable energy projects and energy efficiency in Chile, was Executive Director of the National Center for Innovation and Development for Sustainable Energies (CIFES) where she helped raise resources to support the implementation of renewable energy projects for small and medium enterprises and promote their decentralization through the promotion of projects in regions. He worked in England for Drax Power Limited helping in its strategy of reducing carbon emissions by displacing the consumption of coal by biomass. He previously worked at Eléctrica Guacolda S.A. where he developed an international supply network of energy commodities, mainly coal and petcoke.
Paulina Ulloa, Green Finance Expert, MA, Public Policy and Management, U. de Chile, Diploma, Public Policy Impacts; Diploma, Cllimate Change and Low carbon Development; Civil Engineer, U. de Chile. Paulina has a substantial career in management and innovation in areas related to Clean production, climate change, and energy in bioh the public and private sector, and has worked in raising public, private and multilateral funds and financial coordination frameworks and mechanisms, and has participated in multiple green finance projects and activities in Chile and multilaterally.
Christian Valdes, Financial expert. He is an Administration Manager, and Finance, commercial engineer, MBA from the UAI, with extensive experience in the management of long-term financial strategies. Proven achievements in the leadership and negotiation of obtaining financing through the public market with bond issues and trade effects, as well as in the national and international banking market, with syndicated credits and bilateral loans, each product with the characteristics in term and currency in accordance with the type and business cycle. Demonstrated abilities to understand Business, needs, challenges and risks, elaborating and implementing financial plans and management processes that support companies’ global strategies. High decision-making capacity, tenacity and perseverance to face complex projects. Leadership of work teams for evaluation, analysis and project development, focused on efficiency and productivity.