List of Presenters

Diego is a second-year master student at the Yale School of the Environment specializing in Energy and Industrial Ecology. His interests lie in scaling up environmental technologies for the decarbonization of the economy and solution of the environment-development conflict. For this, Diego seeks to combine his engineering background with studies and research in energy sustainability, innovation and finance. Before attending Yale, Diego worked for 3.5+ years on financial and advisory services for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Mexico.

Brian Bauer applies his knowledge in sustainability, technology & policy into creating value by leveraging the circular economy movement into business model innovation. He connects a network of experts across industry, academia, finance & government who are keen to collaborate on innovative upstream waste management solutions. With Algramo, he focuses on connecting stakeholders to help catalyze reusable packaging systems on a globally significant scale. Brian and the team at Alramo are currently working with Unilever, Nestle and other brands, on game-changing packaging as a wallet technology that enables their reusable packaging to communicate with IoT connected vending machines. He is proud that his proposals have won Algramo: Top Idea in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s $1 Million Circular Design Challenge, MIT Solve Circular Economy Challenge, and the National Geographic’s Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge. He also teaches a graduate level Applied Circular Economy class at Harvard. He has been a speaker at: The European Union’s Our Ocean Conference in Malta; Volvo Ocean Summit in Cape Town; The United Nations System Staff College; The United Nations Science, Policy & Business Forum in Nairobi and Circularity 19.

Environmental engineer, traveler and ocean lover. Project coordinator of Conservamos por Naturaleza, an initiative of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) that seeks to involve more people in nature conservation. Environmental engineer from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, specialized in tourism having attended the mobile seminar on tourism planning and management in Protected Areas at the University of Colorado. After representing Peru in windsurfing at an international level, is coordinator of Hazla por tu Ola, a citizen-led campaign that has allowed the legal protection of 33 surf breaks in Peru. She has received the Carlos Ponce del Prado Award for Conservation in the Young Professional category in 2019.

Eduardo Cavallo is Principal Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC and Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to joining the IDB, Eduardo was a Vice-President and Senior Latin American Economist for Goldman Sachs in New York. Eduardo had already worked at the IDB as a Research Economist between 2006 and 2010. Before that he served as a research fellow at the Center for International Development (CID), a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and a member of the faculty at the Kennedy School of Government’s Summer Program.

Eduardo’s research interests are in the fields of international finance and the economic impacts of natural disasters, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published in several academic journals, and is the co-editor of the books “Building Opportunities for Stronger and Sustainable Postpandemic Growth” (IDB, 2021) “From Structures to Services: the Path to Better Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean” (IDB, 2020); “Building Opportunities for Growth in a Challenging World” (IDB, 2019); “A Mandate to Grow” (IDB, 2018); “Saving for Development: how Latin America and the Caribbean can save more and better” (Palgrave, 2016) and “Dealing with an International Credit Crunch: Policy Responses to Sudden Stops in Latin America” (IDB, 2009).

He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and an MPP from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de San Andres (UdeSA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.