South America Regional Liaison Officer

Rufino is one of the liaison officers of our South American National Office, based at Itaipu Binacional in Paraguay. Since 2003, Rufino has been a senior engineer in the Production Programming and Control Division of Itaipu Binacional, responsible for data analysis, programming and operation of the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric plant. He is an alternate member of the Energy Statistics Committee of the National Energy Information System (CEE-SIEN) of Paraguay.

Rufino is a civil engineer from the Catholic University of "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción", Paraguay, and has completed postgraduate courses in energy economics and policy, energy planning, energy information management and energy prospecting models. He represented Itaipu Binacional at the 2017 World Hydropower Congress in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.