Brussels, 12 June 2020. The European Commissioner for Innovation, Mariya Gabriel, has proclaimed María Luisa Hernández Latorre, from Spain, as the European Champion of Mission Innovation Champions 2020. The proclamation ceremony, which was scheduled to take place in Viña del Mar (Chile), took place today in Brussels and was broadcast via streaming due to the COVID19 situation. At 13:00 today, Eurogroup Commissioner Mariya Gabriel opened the ceremony and proclaimed the twenty-one champions representing the MIC member countries. The ceremony was moderated by Patrick Child, Director General for Research and Development of the European Commission, and was attended by Renu Swarup, Minister of Science and Technology of the Government of India, Mohamed Ghazali, Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy of Morocco, Sebastian de Toro, Secretary of State of the Swedish Ministry of Energy and Henrik Asheim, Minister of Research and Education of Norway. María Luisa Hernández Latorre, champion of the European Union, and Malak Alnory, champion of Saudi Arabia, the host country of the G20 this year, have been chosen to convey the message of acceptance to Mission Innovation Champions on behalf of the twenty-one champions.
Mission Innovation Champions is an initiative of the European Union and twenty countries, including Chile, Saudi Arabia, Korea, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, and Australia, which seeks to recognize and celebrate the work of exceptional innovators and researchers who have developed their careers to accelerate the clean energy revolution. The Mission Innovation Champions program draws global attention to the most promising ideas and seeks to facilitate engagement between the winners and MIC governments, research institutes, affiliated organizations and private sector investors.
María Luisa Hernández Latorre is Founder and CEO of Ingelia, a company that operates in the circular economy sector and has developed its own technology to recover carbon from waste and apply it to the production of biomaterials in industry.
Ingelia is a world leader in its sector, with fifteen international patents and three industrial plants in Spain, the United Kingdom and Belgium. María Luisa Hernández Latorre has developed her professional career in the innovation sector, launching innovative companies in emerging sectors onto the market. She is an Industrial Engineer, Executive MBA and CE-Master in Financial Management and has received numerous international awards for innovation and sustainability. She is a founding member of WAS (Women Action Sustainability), an association of female executives with extensive experience in management, who seek to incorporate sustainability into the boards of directors of companies as the axis of their strategy and development.
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