Cecilia Azar has a degree in Economics and postgraduate studies in project management and sustainability. She has more than 20 years of experience in the banking and mining sectors. She joined BHP in 2007 and has held various positions in areas related to Finance, Risk, Investments, and Planning and External Affairs. Cecilia is currently the […]
Economist at the University of Aachen (Germany). In 2015 she founded the Fiscal Expenditure Observatory, an institution dedicated to data analytics and transparency of public spending. In 2017 she was the first woman to join the board of the Santiago Stock Exchange. Between 2018 and 2020 she was a member of the presidential council for […]
She holds a master’s degree and doctorate in education and is a professor of special education with a specialization in Learning Disorders at the University of Chile. She worked as an assistant within that academic unit and later became a member of the faculty. She has had an outstanding career as a teacher and researcher […]
National Director of the National Agency for Research and Development, ANID. She is an auditor accountant from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. She holds a diploma in Public Management and a Master’s degree in Government and Public Management from Universidad de Chile.
Considered an international reference on issues related to innovation, applied science and science-based entrepreneurship; scientist (biochemist and Ph.D in Biotechnology), the entrepreneur Pablo Zamora is co-founder of The Not Company, one of the fastest growing biotech startups in LATAM, which holds the category of unicorn for its valuation of 1.5 billion dollars. He has a […]
Food engineer from the University of Chile and Master in Analysis and Management of Science and Technology at the University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), has over 20 years of experience in innovation and entrepreneurship as a director, executive, consultant, academic and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Impacta VC and professor of the MBA at Pontificia […]
Pioneer of the Internet industry in Latin America. In 1995 he founded ImageMaker; in 2005 he created FayerWayer and then Betazeta. Between 2015 and 2018 he was CEO of Santiago Maker Space. In 2018 he founded Odd Industries, which uses artificial vision and neural networks to digitize analog industries. In 2021 he founded Lemu, a […]
Executive Vice President of the Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO) of Chile; he holds a degree in Civil Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, a Master’s degree in Economics from the Universidad de Chile and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Economics from Oxford University in England.