Fernando is the Head of the Resource Systems and Resilience program in the Center for Nature and Climate of the World Economic Forum, leading the team that advances initiatives in plastics pollution, the circular economy and societal resilience towards environmental risks. Fernando has held various roles at the Forum, more recently Head of the Materials and Infrastructure industries. Before joining the Forum in 2010, Fernando was for eight years at AkzoNobel.
Fernando is experienced in structuring and managing partnerships for technical development and has performed in areas including technology strategy and management, and corporate innovation. He received his Chemistry degree from Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Florida, and completed his post-doctoral work at Stanford University.
As we take stock of the outcome of the 29th UN Conference of the Parties (COP) last November, the relevance of public health to climate change action is clearer than ever. Climate-driven ...
化学産業の活動は、一般的には主に分子レベルでの物質の操作（特に変換）によって定義されます。このような活動は、食料、モビリティ、グローバルヘルス、情報経済などの分野を含む、あらゆる社会経済システムの中核を担っています。生物である私たち自身が驚異的な総合化学工場であるだけでなく、現代の化学産業の成果によって、私たちは、より健康かつ安全で、生産的な人類として繁栄することができる...
The activities of the chemical industry are generally defined by the manipulation (and especially the transformation) of matter – mainly at the molecular level. These activities remain at...
• Short-term management has been key to managing chemical supply during the pandemic, but long-term trends are equally important.
As the world continues to navigate the complexities of an ongoing pandemic, at any given time millions of tons of the building blocks behind personal care, digital communications, safe pa...
Aside from being the worst health and humanitarian crisis for decades, COVID-19 has caused a drop of almost $7 trillion in global GDP this year.
A group of materials now known collectively as plastics has played a definitive role in delivering much of the socio-economic advantages of modern life, and their production has outpaced ...
Digital innovation is dramatically reshaping the way we live, work and relate to one another. Advanced technologies are being combined in innovative ways, in what has been called the Four...
