Authors

Felipe Agüero is a program officer of the Andean region and Southern Cone at the Ford Foundation.

Javier La Rosa is the coordinator in the access to justice area at the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) in Peru.

Alan Poole is an independent energy consultant based in Washington DC and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has been working with issues of energy efficiency and non-fossil energy supply for more than 35 years.

Dr. David Jhirad is the special advisor on energy and climate change at the Rockefeller Foundation. He served as deputy assistant secretary of energy in the Clinton Administration and as vice president of science and research at the World Resources Institute.

Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.

William K. Reilly is a founding partner of Aqua International Partners, LP, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy, and a senior advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership.

Eduardo Bartolomé is the executive director for Logistics, Project Management and Sustainability for Vale dos Rios, Inc. in Brazil.

John Fetterman is the Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania. He co-founded Cap Solution, a campaign to cap carbon emissions to produce manufacturing jobs.

Hal Harvey is the CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation.

Juan Carlos Morán is a national deputy from Coalición Cívica for the Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Christian Asinelli is a legislator from the Partido Justicialista (PJ) for the City of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Alfredo Montufar-Helu is a guest blogger to AQ Online. His expertise is in the analysis of global affairs including political risk, emerging markets, international security, energy security, and Latin American geopolitics as well as Mexico and China. He is on the editorial team at Asia Trade Watch.

Adriana Vicentini works at the Office of the Mayor of Sucre, Venezuela.

Federico Ortega works at the Office of the Mayor of Sucre, Venezuela.

Natasha Quintana works at the Office of the Mayor of Sucre, Venezuela.