Leonardo Beltran Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Leonardo Beltran holds fellowships at the Institute of the Americas, the University of Calgary´s School of Public Policy; and at the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI).Mr. Beltran had a distinguished 13-year career in public service in the government of Mexico, including as the longest serving Deputy Secretary of Energy (2012-2018). In this capacity, he led Mexico´s National Energy Strategy, policy document that served as the foundation for the energy reform of 2013. He was member of the Board of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico´s national oil company and the world´s 10th largest oil producer and alternate Chairman of the Board of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico´s national power utility and a Global 500 company. Mr. Beltran also chaired the boards of the national laboratories of the energy sector (Mexican Petroleum Institute; National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energies; National Nuclear Research Institute), and the board of a billion usd R&D trust funds that created the Mexican Centers for Innovation on Energy (biofuels, CCS, geothermal, ocean, solar, and wind), the largest clean energy technology innovation networks in Latin America. Mr. Beltran held other leadership positions in government, including Director-General for Information and Energy Studies and Director for International Negotiations. He also served two terms in the Board of Sustainable Energy for All. He was also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University´s Center on Global Energy Policy.Mr. Beltran is a senior advisor of Iniciativa Climática de México; and Advisor Chair of the Evaluation and Learning Initiative of the Climate Investment Funds; member of the Board of Fundación Por México (NGO focused on providing educational services to underserved communities); member of the IPS International Association (global news agency); expert and member of Energy, Materials and Infrastructure Platform of the World Economic Forum; and a mentor of the Global Women´s Network for the Energy Transition.Mr. Beltran is a leading expert in the energy transition, he has been named several times as one of the most influential leaders in the energy sector in Mexico and personality of the year in renewable energy (including in 2018). He was also part of the panel of experts of the National Council of Energy Transition of Panama.He holds a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

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