Erick Brenes Mata

Financial Consultant – Sustainable Finance, Investment Funds & Corporate Governance

Expert on E.S.G corporate governance and innovative sustainable finance instruments

Founder and leader researcher of the Mesoamerican Knowledge Lab, the Latin American Observatory of Sustainable Finance and AVEO Global and online tool for organizational evaluation and development. Associated researcher at the Inter-University Center for Research on Sustainable Development (CIRPS) in Italy, the Pan American Center for Higher Studies (CEPES) in Mexico.

Independent consultant on organizational strengthening, development, and innovative finance instruments for development (ESG, SDG and nature-based). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ibero-American Environmental Network (REIMA, A.C.) and the Corporate Governance Institute in Costa Rica (IGC-CR), board member of the Costa Rican Electrical Institute Corporation, Woman Foundation, Innovatec R.L. and the Global Commission of the Sacred Headwater conservancy project in Ecuador/Perú. In 2014 his team got the National Energy Global Award of the Energy Globe Foundation, also his investment projects received the 2019 and 2020 Sustainability Awards from the Costa Rican National Stock Exchange. He is the sustainable finance advisor for the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) and senior project manager for the Alliance CIAT Bioversity.

  • Nowadays Sustainable finance advisor for the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA).
  • Executive director of the Global Life Centered Hub (GLCH) in Costa Rica.
  • Joint program coordinator for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDGF) in Costa Rica.
  • Advisor on sustainable livelihoods, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Costa Rica
  • Promoter of the Alternative Stock Market Project (MAPA for its acronyms in Spanish), Green and Social Bonds of the National Stock Exchange.
  • Member of the Academic Committee of the International Institute for Environmental Training (IIFA), in Valladolid, Spain and Fondo Verde in Huancayo, Peru.
  • Research Associate, Inter-university Research Center for Sustainable Development (CIRPS for its acronyms in Italian), in Rome, Italy.
  • Regional Coordinator (Central America and Andean Region) for the STRO Foundation, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  • Financial Director of the LINK Project to develop the ICT Cluster in Costa Rica of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
  • CEFOF Project Manager to improve the quality and productivity of industrial SMEs in Central America of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in Alajuela, Costa Rica.
  • Professional practice, Unilog-Integrata Unternehmensberatung Gmbh. Munich, Germany.
  • Ph.D. studies on Sustainability, Universitá della Calabria (UNICAL), Italy and Panamerican Center for Superior Studies (CEPES), México. Thesis: “Nomos Unica, Currency and the unsustainability of the hegemonic system”.
  • M.A. in International Management, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan. Thesis: “Information Strategies for International Project Management”, ISBN: 978-3-659-28168-6.
  • B.A. in Finance Management, Americas International University, Costa Rica.
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  • Spanish
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • Japanese.
  • Italian