Natasha Avendaño García

Natasha Avendaño García

Former Expert Commissioner of Colombia’s Regulatory Agency of Energy and Gas (CREG)

Natasha Avendaño García is an economist from the Universidad de Los Andes. Holds three master's degrees; one in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley; another in Economics from the Universidad de Los Andes and one in International Taxation, Foreign Trade and Customs from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Also, she is a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley with an emphasis in taxation.

Avendaño García has extensive professional experience. Between 2018 and 2022 she served as Superintendent of Public Utilities. Before that, she was Director of Organizational Management of the National Taxes and Customs Administration (DIAN), where she also worked as Deputy Director of Operational Analysis and Advisor to the General Commissioner. For seven years, she worked as an advisor to the Ministry of Finance, as part of the Macroeconomic Policy Department and the Technical Vice Ministry.

For the last year she was an Expert Commissioner of the Regulatory Agency of Energy and Gas - CREG.

Friday, 25 August 2023
12:00 - 13:30

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