Francisca Rivero, MSc

Francisca Rivero, MSc

Work position: GENERAL MANAGER

Line of Research: Social Performance and Resource Governance

Biography: Francisca is a Social Worker from the Pontificia

 Universidad Católica de Chile, and has a Master’s degree in Applied Sciences in Habitat and Development from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She has completed Diplomats in Impact Evaluation of Programs and Public Policies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and in International System of Human Rights from the University of Chile.

She has vast experience in the public sector and in civil society organizations, in issues of social policy, overcoming poverty and sustainable development. She has carried out consultancies with international cooperation agencies and multilateral organizations: World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, the German Cooperation Agency – GIZ and the Organization of American States (OAS). During the last 10 years, she has specialized in sustainable development issues, especially in public-private dialogue programs and initiatives on energy, access to water and climate change in Chile and Latin America. She has designed, implemented and evaluated processes of dialogue and community relations in the mining, energy and forestry sectors. She was Head of the Department of Public Policies of the Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in Chile.