About

Juan Carlos Rivera has served at ISAGEN, a leading sustainable energy production company in Colombia, since 2011, and is responsible for the legal function with a focus on infrastructure and conflict resolution. ISAGEN has a wide network of hydroelectric and thermal energy plants across the country and is an environmentally conscious organisation fully committed to the 2030 UN sustainable development program targets, and is passionate in its environmentalism as well as labour practices in Colombia. As a lawyer with a specialisation in financial and business law and a diploma in tax law and economic regulation of public services, Rivera is finely placed to assist ISAGEN on a number of matters. And with over 20 years of experience in the electric, trade, labour, and social security sectors, in particular with trade unions, he is considered to be one Colombia’s most experienced in-house legal professionals. A nominator noted his talent, saying that ‘he looks into very delicate topics specially related to infrastructure, and has ample knowledge of the very complex and sophisticated sector. He has participated in conflict resolutions processes with excellent outcomes’.