Carolina Lopez-Rocha
Is an international lawyer with over 10 years of experience reforming policies and regulations to boost investments in the energy sector. Ms. Lopez-Rocha joined the World Bank in 2016 and has developed instruments to finance green hydrogen, energy efficiency, and renewable power. Ms. Lopez-Rocha also collaborated with the OECD and the Inter-American Bank to attract private investors in the energy sector to Eastern European and Latin American & Caribbean countries. Before joining the World Bank, she was the Legal Officer at the Mexican-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, where she led negotiations between the Mexican Government and transnational enterprises to advance trade and investment, and she also developed Public-Private Partnership projects (PPP) for infrastructure projects. She previously collaborated with the UN Office of Human Rights in Mexico, where she implemented human rights programs to protect vulnerable groups. She received her LLM in International Legal Studies from NYU Law School.