Ana Lucía Alfaro Murillo is a sustainability, climate change, and energy innovation specialist with extensive experience leading strategic initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean. In her executive role at BIOMATEC, she designs and implements ESG strategies, decarbonization plans, and sustainability reporting frameworks aligned with international standards such as IFRS S1 and S2, collaborating with public institutions, private sector actors, and multilateral organizations to deliver high-impact results.
She has led public policy and strategic planning processes, including the update of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for Costa Rica in 2025 and the development of sectoral roadmaps and circular economy models at municipal and regional levels. Additionally, she spearheads the commercial scaling of BIOCRISOL technology for the energy valorization of residual biomass, integrating innovative business and financing models to advance sustainable solutions with measurable environmental and economic impact.More...
Cindy Torres
CEO@BIOMATEC
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As Chief Executive Officer of BIOMATEC (www.biomatec.net), Dr. Cindy Torres Quirós has led for more than fifteen years the design and execution of knowledge-based business strategies focused on industrial decarbonization, renewable energy deployment, and circular economy models. Her executive leadership integrates technical–financial evaluation, strategic project structuring, and the development of scalable business models aligned with climate governance frameworks and the Sustainable Development Goals. She has successfully directed internationally funded initiatives (IDB, GIZ, AECID, CABEI, UNOPS), delivering measurable environmental and economic outcomes. Dr. Torres brings substantial corporate governance experience, having served as Board Member and Vice President within national electricity utilities, where she contributed to enterprise risk management, financial performance oversight, regulatory compliance, and long-term strategic planning. Her profile combines high-level decision-making capacity, stakeholder negotiation across public–private ecosystems, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary, high-performance teams under complex regulatory environments. Her doctoral training in engineering, coupled with her academic and policy advisory trajectory in energy and climate change, enables her to bridge advanced scientific innovation with executive-level business strategy. In a part-time C-Executive capacity, she offers strategic direction, institutional positioning, capital-ready project structuring, and the expansion of high-impact partnerships in sustainability-driven markets.More...