Management team

Director

Pilar Moraga
Director

Moraga is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Law, Universidad de Chile. She studied Law at the same university, and obtained a Master and a PhD in International and Community Law from Université de Lille, France. Currently, she’s the deputy director of the Environmental Law Centre at Universidad de Chile. Her research interests are focused on sustainable development, environmental law, climate change laws, energy and regulation.

Moraga was a researcher at the IREENAT Research Institute on Transnational Activities at Université de Lille, and at Université de Valenciennes, France. In 2015, she lead the (CR)2 and Adapt-Chile joint project “Proposal for a Legal and Institutional Framework to address Climate Change in Chile”, which was one the first projects that discussed the implementation of a climate change law in Chile.

Contact: pmoraga@derecho.uchile.cl

Deputy Director

René Garreaud
Deputy Director

Garreaud is a full-time professor at the Geophysics Department, Universidad de Chile. He obtained his PhD in Meteorology from the University of Washington, USA, studying the tropical-intertropical interactions and modelling the South American climate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master in Geophysics, both from Universidad de Chile.

Garreaud’s work areas are mainly focused on climate change and vulnerability, with an emphasis on South America, contributing to many studies of the region’s synoptic and mountain meteorology. An important part of his work has been acting as principal investigator on different projects funded by The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (Fondecyt). In 2019, Garreaud has been named corresponding member of The Chilean Academy of Sciences.

Contact: rgarreau@dgf.uchile.cl

Managing Director

Susana Bustos
Managing Director

Industrial Civil Engineer from the University of Chile with 22 years of experience in project management and strategic planning processes in various industries. She has worked as a project director on topics related to sustainability management, stakeholder mapping, and the preparation of sustainability reports. She has been part of the CR2 team since 2015, where she has been in charge of coordinating national and international projects and serving as the executive deputy director. Currently, she is responsible for coordinating, strategic planning, and supervising the fulfillment of objectives and tasks of the management team. Additionally, she is responsible for strengthening ties with public-private sector actors and academia, as well as creating new relationships with strategic actors at the national and international levels.

Contact: susana.bustos@uchile.cl