Lourdes Melgar

Lourdes Melgar is a research affiliate at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence and a non-resident Fellow at the Center of Energy Studies of the Baker Institute. She is also non-Executive director of listed companies and holds positions in the advisory board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), Phius, and Voz Experta (@Vozexperta), an organization that promotes the empowerment of women energy experts. She is the former president of the Mexican Chapter of the International Women´s Forum.

Research Affiliate, MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence; Non-resident Fellow, Center of Energy Studies, Baker Institute

Julie Cerqueira

Julie Cerqueria most recently served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of governors working together to advance the most ambitious state climate agenda in our nation's history. As its inaugural director, Ms. Cerqueira played an integral role in building the coalition from the ground up and provided the tools, resources and technical expertise to help two dozen governors deliver on their climate and clean energy priorities. Prior to that, she served as a Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S.

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy

Alejandro Daniel Lew

Alejandro Daniel Lew has held the position of Chief Financial Officer at YPF since June 2020.

He has worked in the energy industry for several years, occupying different positions of financial responsibility in leading renewable markets companies. He previously served as CEO at 360 Energy Group and as CFO at Genneia.

Chief Financial Officer, YPF

Nymia Almeida

Nymia Almeida is a senior vice president at Moody’s Corporate Finance Group in Mexico City, leading the credit analysis and rating process for debt issuers in the oil and gas industry in Latin America. Prior to this position, she had similar responsibilities for the Latam media and telecom and the metals and mining sectors. Almeida joined Moody’s in 2005.

Senior Vice President, Moody’s Corporate Finance Group

Jaime Caballero

Jaime Caballero is the chief financial officer of Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), the largest company in Colombia and one of the leading integrated energy and infrastructure conglomerates in Latin America. Caballero’s academic background includes a law degree from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), an MBA in energy business from the Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), and executive studies in advanced financial management at Duke University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His trajectory covers more than 20 years in the global energy sector.

Chief Financial Officer, Ecopetrol

Luis Fernando Mejía

Luis Fernando Mejía is the executive director of Fedesarrollo, the Colombian think tank. He was the deputy minister and minister of planning of Colombia from 2014 to 2018. During his tenure, the Ministry of Planning led the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, designed and published long-term policies on green growth and air quality in cities, and provided technical support and coordination for the government during Colombia’s successful accession process to the OECD.

Executive Director, Fedesarrollo, Colombia

Fernando Ruiz Gómez

Fernando Ruiz Gómez is a doctor with a master's degree in Economics from the Javeriana University. He also has a master's degree in Public Health / Occupational Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, and a doctor in Public Health, from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. In his professional career, the position he held as Vice Minister of Public Health during the period 2013-2016 stands out.

Minister of Health and Social Protection, Colombia

Tom Eveson

As Director for the Americas at Sustainalytics, Tom leads the team focused on sustainable financing, ESG Ratings, performance benchmarking, and impact reporting. Tom has held senior roles on the buy and sell side of capital markets including investment banking, and asset management.

Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions and ESG for the Americas, Sustainalytics