Relatores Internacionales

Diego Pardow

Ministro de Energía de Chile

RELATORES

Ramón Méndez

Director Ejecutivo de Ivy

El Dr. Ramón Méndez fue el Director Nacional de Energía de Uruguay entre el 2008 y 2015. Lideró el diseño y la implementación de la transformación energética de su país, que ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos internacionales. En la actualidad, es el Director Ejecutivo (honorario) de la Asociación Ivy, organización de expertos de la región para promover la transición sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe. También es Profesor Titular (a tiempo parcial) de Universidad de la República de Uruguay; docente de las asignaturas “Fundamentos del sector energético“ de la Maestría de Ingeniería de la Energía de la Facultad de Ingeniería y de “Políticas públicas para el desarrollo sostenible“ de la Maestría en Políticas Públicas de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Además realiza Actividades de consultoría y asesoramiento para gobiernos, empresas y organismos internacionales.

Uruguay 

 Ramteen Siohansi 

        Associate Professor and FellowThe Ohio State University

Dr. Sioshansi's research focuses on the integration of advanced energy technologies, including renewables, energy storage, and electric transportation, into energy systems.

He also works in energy policy and electricity market design, especially as they pertain to advanced energy technologies. His recent work in energy market design has examined the effects of new energy technologies and policies, such as renewable energy mandates, on spot and future markets, technology investment, and cost recovery.

He is currently serving a second two-year term on the Electricity Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy and is chair of its Energy Storage Subcommittee.

Estados Unidos

Alexandre Street

Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

He holds the degrees of M.Sc. (2005) and D.Sc. (2008) in Electrical Engineering (emphasis in operations research) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. At the beginning of 2008, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at PUC-Rio, where he is currently an Associate Professor and teaches energy economics and optimization and statistics. He is one of the founders of the Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Programming and Statistics (LAMPS), where he is currently the research director of the energy group. Alexandre Street is a senior member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE Member: S'06, M'10, SM'17). He is currently a FAPERJ and CNPq (level 1) research scientist.

Brasil

Jannik Haas

Senior Lecturer on Sustainable Systems, University of Canterbury

Researcher on sustainable systems. With his highly diverse and international group of about 10 postgraduates studies how infrastructure needs to evolve to become zero-carbon. In other words: how much, where, when and in what technology to invest.

Currently conducting research on Future energy systems, Power-to-X economy, Negative-carbon society, Green farming, Energy storage , Smart districts, Resilient systems and Sustainable mining.

Nueva Zelanda