• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Juan Manuel Rojas

Ecopetrol S.A.

Corporate Vice President, Strategy and Business Development

Juan Manuel Rojas, is the Corporate Vice-president Strategy and Business Development of the Ecopetrol Group, the largest oil and gas conglomerate in Colombia. He is currently responsible for leading the formulation of the long-term strategy of the Ecopetrol Group of companies, for looking forward to recognize emerging trends (scientific, geopolitical, economic) and issues that can impact the strategy. Also responsible for business development in the upstream (including conventional and unconventional) in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and the US, as well as for new ventures in the midstream and downstream. Mr. Rojas is an international executive, with 20 years of experience in the energy industry in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia. Experience setting for strategic direction for Oil & Gas businesses covering up, midstream and downstream, and in business development in these fields, plus in renewable energy and with different kinds of utilities. Mr. Rojas is a highly experienced economist, graduated from Universidad de Los Andes with a Master Degree in Economics from the same institution and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Sessions With Juan Manuel Rojas

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Latin American E&P: Increasing competitiveness
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    The Latin American upstream sector has some of the best subsurface opportunities available globally. Basins such as offshore Brazil, the Guyana Basin on the Equatorial Margin, and the onshore Neuquén Basin all illustrate the depth of potential investment interest in several other basins in the region. However, the aboveground offering must also be competitive. Shifting realities, risks, and policies toward investment all interact to the region’s detriment. Can policymakers in the region enhance competitiveness to capture a larger share of what promises to be suppressed global spending in E&P? Can gas market reforms and midstream liberalizations unlock the region’s upstream opportunities? How do companies and governments see the impact of the energy transition on Latin American E&P?