Leonardo Beltran is a non-resident fellow at the Institute of the Americas, an executive fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and is serving on the Board of Sustainable Energy for All. Beltran’s career includes more than a decade of innovative energy policy in Mexico to include his years as the longest serving Deputy Secretary of Energy of Mexico. He was also on the Board of Directors of Pemex. Beltran also chaired the boards of the national laboratories of the energy sector, which included the Mexican Petroleum Institute; National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energies and the National Nuclear Research Institute and presided over the board of a billion dollars in research and development trust funds that created the Mexican Centers for Innovation on Energy.