From Clean Energy to Hydrogen Powerhouse: A Fireside Chat with Chile’s Energy Minister Diego Pardow

He is a Lawyer from the University of Chile and a Master’s and Doctor in Law from the University of California, Berkeley.

He was a professor at the Law School of the University of Chile, and until his appointment as Minister of Energy, he served as Head of the Monitoring Unit of the Presidency of the Government of President Gabriel Boric Font.

He was executive president of the think tank Espacio Público between October 2019 and June 2021.

His main area of research is the economic analysis of law, especially on institutional design, judicial reasoning, and economic and energy regulatory issues.

In 2017 and 2018, he received the Edgardo Buscaglia award for the best empirical research by the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Law and Economics (ALACDE). He has also been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank in matters of infrastructure regulation.

He is a militant of the Convergencia Social political party; has two children: Guadalupe and Lucas; is a fan of the Colo Colo Chilean soccer team, and likes to play soccer.

Iain Wilson is Senior Editor for BloombergNEF.

He has 24 years of experience covering financial markets for a real-time global audience. In his time at Bloomberg, he has served as Asia technology team leader, Asia news trainer, commodity/energy editor, and bureau chief for Australia.

Most recently, he has served as a senior BNEF editor for Asia. He has covered some of the biggest global news stories of the past three decades including the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the 2007 global financial crisis. His recent reporting for BNEF has covered developments in decarbonizing aviation, nuclear fusion and innovations in the hard-to-abate sector.

Wilson holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Norman Tweeboom is appointed as Head of Japan in 2021 and is responsible for the overall sales strategy, implementation and all client related services for the country.

Prior to his current role, Mr Tweeboom was Head of Buyside Enterprise Sales for Asia-Pacific, being responsible for Bloomberg’s buyside strategy, implementation and client services in the region. Based in Singapore, he oversaw regional strategy and business development for Bloomberg’s portfolio and index business and led a team across more than 20 countries in Asia Pacific. He and his team serve financial institutions including asset owners, asset managers, and regional and global banks, in their indices and portfolio analytics requirements.

Mr Tweeboom joined Bloomberg in 2016 following the acquisition of Barclays Risk Analytics and Index Solutions, or BRAIS, where he spent eight years spearheading the market-leading provider of fixed income benchmark and strategy indices, portfolio analytics, risk and attribution models and portfolio construction tools.
Mr Tweeboom started his illustrious career at Lehman Brothers where he was heavily involved in developing the widely-used fixed income benchmark and strategy indices over 19 years across New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Mr. Tweeboom earned his Bachelor’s degree from Pace University in New York where he majored in economics and statistics.