José Ramón Gómez Guerrero has devoted his career to one idea: that Latin America's energy should be built as a region. He is currently the IDB Group's regional energy specialist and lead for Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic. He previously worked from Washington, Bogotá, Panama City, San José, where he was IDB Representative in Costa Rica, and Quito, on power interconnection, universal access, renewable energy and corporate governance operations. He has supported a portfolio of more than US$4 billion across 15+ countries. He has written on the IDB Blog about universal access in Ecuador, the Ecuador-Peru interconnection and the Central American power market, and his ideas have appeared in Forbes Peru, Semana, La Prensa and El Oriente. He worked at the World Bank. He is an environmental and sanitary engineer from Universidad de La Salle with two master's degrees from George Washington University. He speaks Spanish and English. His views are his own and do not represent an institutional position.
