He is currently a senior researcher (CGE modeler) at the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC@Ca’Foscari).

He was the Coordinator and Professor of the International Center for Energy and the Environment at the IESA School of Management 2016 – 2021. He is an economist who graduated from Universidad Central de Venezuela with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado Boulder.

He entered the oil industry with the company Lagoven in 1990. He worked at Petróleos de Venezuela until 2014, where he was manager of economic analysis at the Corporate Planning Office. Before joining IESA, he was a Senior Economist at IDEA International in Panama, conducting fiscal risk analysis and budgeting for results in Latin American countries.