Nilton Bispo Amado. University of São Paulo
Nilton Bispo Amado is a researcher and director of the Division of Planning, Economic and Social Analysis and Evaluation, and Development of Energy Resources at the Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE) at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). His work focuses on the energy transition understanding the technical and socio-economic barriers to integrating variable renewable energy resources and characterizing the biophysical foundations of the current economic system. Dr. Bispo Amado will present an overview of the Brazilian energy system and the challenges and opportunities for a decarbonized system.
Mariana Traldi. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo -IFSP
Mariana Traldi is a professor of Geography at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP), Hortolândia campus. Her research addresses questions of space production, land income, accumulation through dispossession, and wind and solar lease contracts through the lens of human geography. She has a BSc in law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas and a BSc, MSc, and PhD in geography from the State University of Campinas in Brazil. Professor Traldi will discuss the social, economic, and territorial impacts of wind farms in northeast Brazil to show how renewable energy infrastructures are being implemented in the third world.
Ana Tamborrel Signoret. Climate Justice Manager at Iniciativa Climática de México
Ana Sofía Tamborrel Signoret holds the position of Justice and Climate Policy Manager, where she spearheads the agenda concerning just transitions and collaboratively leads initiatives for national and regional mitigation strategies. In this capacity, her responsibilities encompass supervising the execution of projects centered around a just energy transition and addressing climate change. Throughout her time at ICM, Ana Sofía has been tasked with developing research, delivering training, and formulating proposals about practices, regulations, and public policies to foster an inclusive, participatory, and transparent energy transition. Moreover, she has overseen and contributed to the formulation of climate policy instruments on both national and subnational levels, infusing justice, gender, and human rights considerations into an array of projects. As a representative of ICM, Ana Sofía actively engages in multi-stakeholder arenas at national and regional levels, contributing to climate change mitigation through networks and strategic partnerships.
Mauricio Hernandez. Nicholas School of the Environment
Mauricio Hernandez is a Doctoral Candidate in Energy Systems at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, with a master’s in environmental management from Duke University and a degree in Electric Engineering from the Tech of Monterrey (Mexico). His work analyzes the determinants and characteristics that affect electricity consumption in the Mexican residential sector by using and applying random forest (RF) and multilinear regression (MLR) methods to find the most influential determinants that explain electricity consumption in Mexican households. Using a large amount of data (National Survey on the Consumption of Energy Sources in Private Housing Units -ENCEVI), his work offers results to predict electricity demand in other sectors and for energy-end use.
Bernardo Pinilla Zuleta. Universidad Externado de Colombia
Bernardo Pinilla Zuleta is an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Anthropology, at the School of Social Sciences Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia. Holds a Masters in Latin American Knowledges and Cultures from the Institute of Thought and Culture in Latin America IPECAL (Mexico). He has extensive experience in fieldwork, intercultural dialogue, and research related to the rights of ethnic peoples and communities regarding extractive projects (mining and energy development). He coordinated the team in charge of compliance with Order 004 of 2009 of the Constitutional Court on 36 indigenous peoples at risk due to displacement and armed conflict for the Ministry of the Interior. He is an advisor to the Ombudsman’s Office on issues related to indigenous, Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquero rights. With his team Pinilla Zuleta, monitors and accompanies compliance with different judicial rulings on the rights of minority ethnic peoples and the implementation of the ethnic chapter of the Final Peace Agreement with the FARC. In the private sector, he has worked at Geocol Consultores as a thematic coordinator of prior consultation; at P1 Energy (Colombia Branch), as a social manager; in Environmental and Social Solutions (SA&S) , as comprehensive consultant; and in South American Exploration LLC Co., as an anthropologist.
Amanda Ullman. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Amanda Ullman studies and works on the planning and executing of just energy transitions in comparative fashion. Her unique perspective on renewable energy in domestic and international markets with a community-oriented approach (Wayuu indigenous from Colombia) makes her research particularly interesting. Ullman applies mixed-methods focusing on assessing modes to support a just transition from reliance on fossil fuels to integrating zero-carbon energy sources for economic and energetic purposes to minority communities. Holds a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) from Duke University, were employed sustainability assessments, applied data analytics, energy and power markets modeling, policy analysis and development, and impact evaluation in her research.
Moderated by:
Dalia Patiño-Echeverri. Gendell Family Associate Professor of Energy Systems. Duke University.
Dr. Patiño-Echeverri’s research focuses on public policy design for energy systems, with a particular emphasis on managing the risks arising from the uncertainties influencing the outcomes of government actions. Much of her current work focuses on the policies that affect capital investment decisions within the electricity industry, and the corresponding costs to society of electricity and air-emissions levels. Her models explore the effects of different government policies by representing the industry’s decisions under uncertainty on future technological advancements, fuel prices, and emissions regulations.
Contact: dalia.patino@duke.edu
