Cristobal De la Maza

ASIC LATAM Co-Chair Cristóbal de la Maza is an Industrial Civil Engineer from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He is principal researcher on sustainability and data science at San Sebastián University and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Between 2019 and 2022 he served as Superintendent for the Environment of Chile, leading the national agency in charge of environmental enforcement and compliance. Previously, he served as Director at the Environmental and Climate Change Division of the Ministry of Energy, where he led the design and implementation of the National Decarbonization Strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and drafted legislation on carbon emission markets. From 2010 to 2014 he was Director of the Information and Environmental Economics Division at the Ministry of Environment, where he led the design and implementation of the National Green Growth Strategy, of several air quality and emission standards, and decontamination plans on criteria pollutants, and he administer national Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. As a researcher, he specializes in environmental economics and policy, decision science and machine learning, and has published several articles in specialized journals.