Peru’s Path Forward: Navigating Political, Economic, and Global Dynamics

Lisa Viscidi

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Lisa Viscidi is a non-resident senior fellow with the Energy Transition and Climate Program  and the former director of the program. She is currently a senior manager in Deloitte Consulting’s government and public services practice, where she serves in project management and technical specialist roles on behalf of international donor clients. Viscidi has led teams in areas including electric mobility, advanced renewable energy technologies, and rural electrification in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and the Middle East.

Before joining the Dialogue, she was New York bureau chief and Latin America team leader for Energy Intelligence Group. Subsequently, as a manager in the energy and emerging markets groups at Deloitte, her work focused on business development and market intelligence for public and private sector clients. She has also served as director of EntreMundos, a nonprofit organization based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Viscidi’s articles have been published in The Financial Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, and Foreign Affairs. She frequently presents at conferences and universities throughout the world and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, and other news outlets. She has testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and received a Fulbright Specialist grant in 2017 to teach a course on climate change and environmental policy at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. She also served on the Leadership Council for the National Capital Area Chapter of the US Association for Energy Economics from 2018 to 2020.

Viscidi conducted her undergraduate work in history at the George Washington University and the University of Barcelona and completed a master’s degree in Latin American studies with a focus on economic development and public policy from New York University. Viscidi speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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The Trump administration before and the Biden administration over the past year has criticized both in private conversations and in public the direction that things are going on energy policy. And [López Obrador] is only digging his heels in further and further consolidating this policy.

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In Latin America as a whole, not nearly enough progress has been made in cutting emissions ahead of the Glasgow conference.

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