The researcher from the Governance and Science-Policy Interface research line becomes the fourth director of CR2 since the center’s inception in 2013.
By CR2 Communications
Pilar Moraga, full-time professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and director of the Environmental Law Center, has assumed the role of the new director of the Center for Climate and Resilience Research CR2 for the period corresponding to the years 2024 and 2025.
Moraga is a lawyer from the University of Chile, holds a master’s degree in International and Community Law from the University of Lille 2, France, and a doctorate in Law from the same institution. Her research areas include sustainable development, climate change, environment, energy policy, and the promotion of renewable energies.
The position of deputy director is taken on by René Garreaud, full-time professor in the Department of Geophysics at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile, who served as director of CR2 between 2022 and 2023. Garreaud is a civil engineer and holds a master’s degree in Geophysics from the University of Chile, and a doctorate in Meteorology from the University of Washington, Seattle, United States. In 2019, he was appointed corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
We wish them the greatest success in their new roles.
