Hernández-González, Guillermo

Dr. Guillermo Hernández González has more than 12 years of experience in the energy field, including power generation, T&D, energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and decarbonization. Dr. Hernández González has worked indifferent countries around the world, such as Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jamaica, Morocco, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, in different roles and capacities. Dr. Hernández González started his professional career as a power engineer in the now extinct Mexican utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro, responsible for purely technical studies, and eventually became Task Team Leader and sectorial focal point for the World Bank, where he was responsible for overall project supervision including fiduciary aspects, social and environmental safeguards, and client relationship and engagement, as well as business development. Dr. Hernández González is (and has always been) committed to the preparation of future generations of engineers, first combining his graduate studies at the University of Toronto with his role as teacher´s assistant, and subsequently as full-time and part-time professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico City Campus) since he returned to Mexico in 2009. His passion for teaching was challenged in 2017, when a major earthquake severely damaged the Mexico City Campus, in 2019 when the COVID pandemic hit worldwide, and since 2012, when he joined the World Bank. However, he always managed to keep up with his academic tasks, despite intensive traveling and the imposed virtual arrangements. Dr. Hernández González re-joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a full-time faculty member in February 2023.