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

H.E. Diego Mesa Puyo

Ministry of Mines and Energy, Colombia

Minister of Mines and Energy

Diego Mesa Puyo is the Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia. The Minister is a Globally-minded energy and extractive industries leader with over 15 years of experience in management and advisory roles in government, multilateral, and the private sector. As Deputy Energy Minister of Colombia between 2018 and 2020, he co-led the design and implementation of the country's energy transformation policy, including increasing the share of variable renewable energy from 1% to 12% of the power generation matrix. Before joining the Colombian government, he spent six years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading technical assistance missions to advise African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries on fiscal issues for extractive industries. Before the IMF, he spent four years as a Manager and Senior Economist in the Consulting and Deals Practice of PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC) in Canada. The Minister holds an M.A. in Economics from McGill University and has been a CFA®️ chart holder since 2012.

Sessions With H.E. Diego Mesa Puyo

Thursday, 12 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Reshaping Latin American Power Markets: Cheaper & cleaner
    Power & Renewables

    The growing trend toward power mix diversification has created opportunities to unleash the potential of renewables and gas-fired generation in Latin America. Power auctions and corporate power purchase agreements have set the foundation for competitive prices, especially for renewables that capitalized on global cost reductions and efficiency gains to leverage world-class natural resources across the region. The fierce competition in the market and the introduction of new business models will continue to push the power sector toward a greener and cheaper energy mix, but challenges remain. How will the region combine the growing role of intermittent resources, which include the impacts of climate change on hydropower, with the need for additional flexibility and stability?