Federico Fische

Regional Coordinator, Latin America & the Caribbean

Federico Fische is an economist with more than 20 years of experience in international development cooperation and private sector development. He specialises in renewable energy solutions, clean tech innovations and energy efficiency, private sector projects and public sector programme funding in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa.

During the last three years, he has led the implementation of USAID’s US$ 10 million Clean Energy Finance Facility for the Caribbean and Central America. This grant programme has funded over 20 projects and leveraged over $800 million in potential investments. Later, Federico became the Key Expert for Latin America, Caribbean and Pacific region for the EU Technical Assistance Facility for Sustainable Energy for Neighbourhood (East and South), Asia, Latin America, Caribbean and Pacific. In this role, he supports policy analysis, development and implementation for the clean energy sector, with the aim to accelerate and implement countries’ sector reform policies related to access to clean energy, and to foster and facilitate project funding.