Christopher Smith was named Ford’s chief government affairs officer in March 2022. He leads a global team that is constantly enhancing the company’s expertise and influence in legislation and policy vital to the Ford+ plan for growth and value creation. Rapidly evolving policy priorities include areas such as connectivity, electric vehicles and digital services, and are intended to benefit customers, society and the environm
Juan Carlos Jobet has extensive experience in public service and the business world. He was minister of Energy and Mining during the second government of Sebastián Piñera. Between 2013 and 2014 he served as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, and before that as Undersecretary of Housing and Urban Planning.
Jeff Glekin was appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Plurinational State of Bolivia in January 2019. He was previously Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Bogotá.
Lawyer from the University of Chile, Diploma in Natural Resources and Energy Law from the Catholic University and Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Before assuming his current position, he served as Legal Manager of Albemarle Chile, where he led the legal area of the company assuming important challenges, among them, the successful negotiation of contracts between the company and the State. With extensive experience in the regulatory and mining sector, prior to Albemarle, Ignacio Mehech worked as a lawyer at Compañía Minera El Abra.
Gastón Bottazzini, born in Argentina in 1969, took over as CEO of Falabella on June 1, 2018. He previously worked as CEO of Falabella Financiero for approximately 10 years, which afforded him deep knowledge of the businesses and markets in which Empresas Falabella operates, as well as its different subsidiaries. Bottazzini led the innovation and digitalization of Banco Falabella and CMR in Chile and the region, launching Banco Falabella in Colombia and leading the entry of S.A.C.I. Falabella into Mexico.
Alberto van Klaveren Stork holds a Degree in Legal Sciences from the Universidad de Chile, a Master of Arts in International Studies from the University of Denver, United States, and a Doctorandus in Political Science from the Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands.
With extensive experience in the academic world, he has worked in research on International Relations, Comparative Foreign Policy, Chilean Foreign Policy and International Law.
Aisén Etcheverry has extensive experience in the field of digital technologies and public policies related to science, technology, and innovation. She has been a driving force behind key initiatives related to personal data protection, open access to knowledge, and technologies for information management and big data.
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