Carlos Garibaldi is the Executive Secretary of Arpel, the association of oil, gas and renewable energy companies in Latin America and the Caribbean, founded in 1965 and based in Montevideo.
With over 46 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Carlos has specialized in corporate strategy, planning and valuation of production and exploration portfolios, business development, asset and corporate M&A transactions, design of contractual and fiscal terms and bidding rounds, corporate reorganizations and international negotiations.
At Arpel, he focuses on promoting the transformation of the sector in the region, aligned with plural, just and inclusive energy transitions. He supports member companies in their strategies to decarbonize their operations, processes and facilities, and to diversify their energy product portfolios through the greater relative weight of natural gas and the incorporation of renewable energies.
Carlos has held technical, managerial and executive positions at Amoco, San Jorge, Chevron, The Scotia Group, Harrison Lovegrove, Standard Chartered Bank, Tecpetrol, HSBC, Ecopetrol, Arthur D. Little and Plata Energy.
He has a degree in Chemical Engineering (U. de Buenos Aires), M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering (U. of Tulsa) and MBA (Rice University).
