XVI International Mining Meeting
Juan Ricardo Ortega
President of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB)
The president of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB), Juan Ricardo Ortega, is a native of Bogotá. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad de los Andes and master's degrees in economics, finance, and mathematics from Yale University in the United States. He worked with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington as General Coordinator of the Alliance for the Prosperity of the Northern Triangle Countries of Central America; he served as Director of the Dian (National Tax and Customs Directorate), Director of Economic Studies at the National Planning Department (DNP), Economic Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, Deputy Minister of Finance and Commerce, Director of the Financial Guarantees Fund (Fogafín), Secretary of Finance for Bogotá, professor at the National, Externado, Rosario, and Los Andes universities, and Chief Economist at BBVA Colombia. Since July 2020, he has chaired Grupo Energía Bogotá, a Latin American conglomerate with operations in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, as well as natural gas transportation and distribution in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Guatemala.