The next decade is critical to see whether countries can move fast enough to implement plans to adapt to this increasingly complex challenge: the climate and biodiversity crisis. The LAC region benefits from accessing donor resources to address climate change's challenges in their economies, finding ways to increase ambition, and searching for solutions to tackle … [Read more...] about Concessional Resources to Accelerate Climate Action
Marcelino Madrigal Martínez
Dr. Marcelino Madrigal is the head of the Energy Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In his more than twenty years of experience in the energy sector worldwide, he has served as a former commissioner of the Regulatory Commission in Mexico, senior specialist at the World Bank, research professor at the Technological Institute of Morelia and member of the national system of researchers in Mexico. He was also the president of the International Committee of the World Regulators Forum 2018 and vice president of the Ibero-American Association of Regulators (ARIAE). Dr. Madrigal holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and the University of Waterloo in Canada. His areas of expertise include operation, planning, market design, regulation and projects for the transition and decarbonization of the electric power sector. He has published more than 10 refereed technical articles and was winner of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).