Newsletter ACERA - Noviembre 2019

05.
NEWS
Paola Hartung is the new
Vice President of ACERA
After the renewal of the Association’s counselors that took
place in October, it was necessary to ratify who would make up
the Board of Directors, which was made by the same members
of the Council, and a woman was elected, for the first time, as
Vice-President: Paola Hartung.
"I am proud to have been elected as Vice President of a trade
association as relevant in the industry as ACERA. I am fortunate
to know the energy sector closely, I have been working both in
the public and private sectors for several years, and have been
part for more than five years of the Association’s Council, so
the result of this election is a great honor and a great
responsibility. I am very committed to ACERA's guidelines and,
in particular, to the sustainable and responsible energy
transition, and in the same vein, to the development of energy
storage," Paola Hartung said after her election.
In this way, the Board of Directors of ACERA is composed of:
José Ignacio Escobar as President, Paola Hartung as Vice
President, Manuel Tagle as Director Treasurer, Mario Manríquez
as Director Secretary, Past President Alfredo Solar, and
Jean-Christophe Puech, Clemente Pérez, Marta Alonso and
Patricia Darez as Directors.
ACERA and its companies joined the
Public-Private Plan of the Ministry of Energy
to encourage the insertion of women into
the energy sector
The Ministers of Energy, Juan Carlos Jobet, and of Women and
Gender Equity, Isabel Plá, launched a package of public-private
measures to encourage the insertion of women into the energy
sector, as part of an Action Plan developed by the Ministry of Energy
with the support of the gender technical agency of which ACERA has
been part since its inception.
The initiative was committed by 52 actors of the energy sector,
including 21 trade associations and institutions and 31 companies that
bring together 25,000 workers (11 of them members of ACERA). Some
of the commitments point to each company designing and
implementing diversity and inclusion strategies, measuring the pay
gap, and fostering female leadership.
For ACERA's Director of Communications, Fernanda Varela, who
represents the association at the gender technical table, this initiative is
a major milestone for Chile and for the energy industry. "From ACERA
we are very happy with the progress of the table. You don'talways
see concrete results in these conversation spaces, but here we
obtained clear figures, based on which we can implement
improvement actions and obtain real results, as well as a complete
work plan, with specific challenges, to which we adhere with great
satisfaction, as it is a tool that will help us to carry forward our
commitment to diversity and gender equity."
The meeting was organized within the framework of the XVI REDEG -
Red de Empresas por la Equidad de Género- Discussion Panel, where
representatives from different masculinized industries participated. The
entity maintains a collaborative alliance with ACERA.