Ana Lucía Arteaga Ortega from Colombia, an Industrial Engineer with a bachelor's degree from ICESI University in Cali, and then studied Energy Regulation at Externado University in Bogotá where she received her master's degree in 2013.
Ana Lucía has more than 13 years of experience working in the public sector in energy and financial matters. She worked for seven years at the National Planning Department, reviewing the royalty incomes that coal and nickel companies paid to the Colombian state and overseeing public projects funded with these incomes. She also worked as a solar rooftop PV coordinator at EMCALI Utility Company where she was responsible for estimating solar rates and offering business models for solar self-generation projects. In 2018 she served as a volunteer in India for the Barefoot College program, which supports 40 illiterate women by teaching them about solar energy issues.
Today, as a Fulbright fellow under the category of Hubert H. Humphrey, she would like to create a solar entrepreneurship center for women in the Colombian Pacific Region based on peer-to-peer platform blockchain trading and giving solar systems training to them. Furthermore, she is studying Climate change and energy at University of California, Davis and she doing her internship at Remote Energy.