Energy
The Wilson Center’s Latin America Program recently launched its Energy Transition Initiative in Santiago, Chile. This initiative seeks to highlight critical minerals and renewable energy investment opportunities in the Americas, improve the investment climate for these projects, and encourage greater support by the United States and multilateral development banks for efforts to expand the region’s role in clean energy supply chains in the Western Hemisphere.
Guests
Bernadette M. Meehan
U.S. Ambassador to Chile
Ismaela Magliotto
Executive Director, Uno.Cinco
Benjamin N. Gedan, PhD
Director, Latin America Program, Wilson Center
Diego Pardow
Minister of Energy, Chile
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Sebastián Miller
Lead Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Paula Estévez
General Manager, Chilean American Chamber of Commerce
Ignacio Mehech
Vice President, External Affairs LATAM, & Country Manager, Chile, Albemarle
Patricio Hidalgo
Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American Chile
José Miguel Benavente
Executive Vice President, CORFO
Alfredo Solar
General Manager, Chile, Atlas Renewable Energy
Bárbara Saavedra
Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Chile
Heraldo Muñoz
Former President, Party of Democracy, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chile
Jose W. Fernandez
Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
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