Biography

I graduated from Stanford with a focus on energy and environmental policy. Afterwards, I moved to Mongolia to work with a professor of mine who had become the Ambassador at Large of Mongolia. For three years I worked on shaping regional energy and environmental policies alongside numerous ministers, parliament members, and policy experts. My focus was on nuclear energy – in particular, how to sustainably mine uranium and increase international security and cooperation. In this position, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo’s (Todai) Department of Nuclear Engineering, as well as a visiting lecturer to PhD students for a Seoul National University and Todai summer school on multilateral energy cooperation. I was in Japan when the Fukushima Daiichi disaster struck, and in the ensuing instability became deeply involved in nuclear education as well as in multi-country policy talks. Today, I am based in my mother's home country of Ecuador and work in environmental risk management and biodiversity conservation efforts for USAID and USAID-funded projects. I often travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where I coordinate the risk management component of a Food for Peace project. I have also traveled to Honduras and Malawi to author environmental assessments, and to Haiti, El Salvador, and Paraguay to lead environmental compliance workshops. At Cambridge, I hope to research methods for bridging the gap between energy politics and environmental sustainability.

Previous Education

Stanford University