Established in 2011, the Chile-California Council (CCC) is a bi-national nonprofit organization that promotes mutually beneficial relationships and knowledge sharing between Chile and California in both the private and public sectors. The product of a long history of fruitful collaborations between Californians and Chileans, the CCC operates like a start-up, working to create effective relationships that are essential to solve some of today’s most pressing challanges.

Focus Areas

Natural Resource Management

State and Society

Technology

Focus Areas

Natural Resource Management

State and Society

Technology

Focus Areas

Natural Resource Management

Technology

Society

“Chile and California share plenty of similarities which offer fruitful opportunities for beneficial exchange of knowledge and experience”. -Lovell “Tu” Jarvis, Chairman of the Board

“Chile and California share plenty of similarities which offer fruitful oppotunities for beneficial exchange of knowledge and experience”. -Lovell “Tu” Jarvis, Chairman of the Board

Current Projects

The CCC develops mutually beneficial projects that allows our partners to expand their impact in the areas of Technology, State and Society and Natural Resource Management. These projects aim to establish long term collaborative relationships between private and public organizations at the state or national level.

Clean Energy Conference, Sacramento, CA

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Inclusion and Diversity in the Workplace

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Private and Public Emergency Response

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Chispa Spark Funding Program

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Officers

The CCC is spearheaded with a multidisciplinary board of thought leaders and experts in their fields to advise our committed staff. We also receive grants and support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile and we have representation from the State of California in our board of directors. This unique combination of talent and expertise allows us to establish truly public/private collaborations in Chile and California. Want to be part of our board? We’d love to hear from you!

Lovell “Tu” Jarvis

President

Rafael Friedmann

Vice-President / Secretary in California

Jake Leraul

Treasurer

Cristián Sjögren

Vice-President in Chile

Staff

Matías Alcalde

Executive Director of the Chile California Council for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chile

Josefina Edwards

Program Manager

Founding Director

Agustin Huneeus

Previous Executive Directors

Cristóbal Barros

Juan Ibañez

Ricardo Rodriguez

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The CCC is an independent 501 c(3) nonprofit organization whose activities are made possible thanks to the financial contributions of both the public and the private sector, and in-kind support from its members, collaborators and partners.

Lovell S. “Tu” Jarvis received a B.A in economics with the highest distinction from the University of Kansas in 1964 where he is originally from, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1969. Jarvis taught economics at UC Berkeley from 1969 to 1983, and worked as an international consultant before becoming a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, in 1984. He was Divisional Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 1999-2009. Jarvis conducts research on agricultural development and agricultural policy in less-developed countries, particularly in Latin America. His research includes theoretical and empirical analysis of livestock production; prevention, control and eradication of animal disease; the adoption and effect of new technologies; the allocation of water resources; agricultural labor markets; international trade; biotechnology; nutrition policy; and the historical development of Chile's agricultural sector, including the effect of its land and economic reforms. He has consulted extensively for the U.S. government, international agencies such as the World Bank, foreign governments and private firms and is the recipient of grants and awards from NSF, USDA, the Fulbright Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. He has published four books and numerous peer-reviewed professional journal articles. He is married to Marisita Rivas-Hurtado.

Rafael Friedmann is an expert strategic analyst at Pacific Gas and Electric Company where he develops evaluation policy and manages research on energy efficiency programs. He holds a BS degree in Energy Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Machon Technologi Le´Israel, and a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2014, Rafael has lead the group of experts in energy at the Chile-California Council in California, and has been invited to Chile many times to discuss the proposed legislation in energy efficiency. Rafael lives in Oakland.

Born in Concord, CA, Jake Leraul, spent several years living in Santiago, where he met his wife and life partner, Soraya. While in Chile, he taught English to corporate clients as well as high school and university students, and in the evenings he completed a Master's in International Relations at the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales at the Universidad de Chile. His Master's thesis explored the changing immigration profile of Chile between 1990 and 2010. He has also lived and worked in Costa Rica and Spain, teaching English, working on refugee and asylum issues, and international democracy promotion with the Club de Madrid. He has an undergraduate degree in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a second Master's Degree in Immigration, Asylum and Intercommunity Relations from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He currently resides in the Bay Area where he works as a transactional attorney with O'Melveny & Myers after obtaining his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis. He is focused on FinTech and water issues for international corporate and pro bono clients, and maintains a strong interest in international development and human migration. Jake is an avid musician, amateur programmer, and nature enthusiast.

Cristián Sjögren holds a B.S. in Industrial Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has more than 10 years of experience in the energy industry, including involvement in the development, construction, financing, and operation of energy infrastructure projects. He served as the Director for the Latin American region for First Solar, where he led operations in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. Responsible for the office in Chile and the establishment and development of Luz del Norte, one of the largest solar projects in the region with a total investment of + US $ 350 million. He participated in the negotiation of multiple power supply contracts with customers from various industries and distribution companies, winning + 200GWh in bidding to supply regulated customers. A pioneer in the solar industry in Chile, Sjögren is the founder of Solar Chile, a start- up focused on the development of solar projects with a pipeline of +1,500 MW, which was subsequently acquired by First Solar.

Matías Alcalde is a Civil Engineer from Universidad Católica de Chile with special diploma on Hydraulics. Since College, he has carried in parallel to his professional/academic activities, an active life dedicated to the social and environmental world. He was one of the founders of the NGO Costa Sur, which mobilized more than 3,000 volunteers to work on the coast between Cobquecura and Curanipe, the week after the earthquake and tsunami that happened in Chile the year 2010. Later in 2012, he co-founded GiveSurf Foundation which is dedicated to establish extra-curricular educational surf-based programs in coastal communities throughout Chile. In parallel, he has worked professionally as a water resources engineer, project developer, financial controller in Private Equity fund and Hotel manager.
El Mercurio - 100 Young Leaders program, chose him as one of Chile’s Young Leaders on year 2013. He was subsequently invited to participate in the E-Ship project (Entrepreneur Ship), an initiative organized by Universities of Stanford, Católica and Desarrollo, achieving the first place of the Canvas business model on "How to strengthen relations between Chile and California." He also served as Executive Director of the Punta de Lobos Foundation, founded by Nicholas Davis, whose mission is to establish a perpetual Conservation project on the coastal edge of Punta de Lobos, and to expand this model to safeguard the natural coastal edge of Chile.

Josefina is the Program Manager at Chile California Council. She has a broad interest in non-profits and cultural management. Previously, she worked for three years in Ashoka Chile, where she was the first Operations Manager of the office, created in 2012. After that, Josefina was part of the team of Cecilia Brunson Projects art gallery in London, where she lived for a year. Among other activities, she has also organized several expos in Chile. Josefina holds a BA in Business Administration and Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

M. Isabel Valdés is known as a pioneer in Multi-Cultural marketing and for developing innovative In-Culture marketing and research strategies that are Gold Standards in marketing communications today. For more than 15 years, Isabel was the CEO of a national, award-winning marketing research and consulting company that she founded: Hispanic Market Connections, Inc. (HMC.) Her clients included Fortune 500, non-profits and government organizations in the US and abroad. She sold HMC, Inc. in 1999 and founded Isabel Valdes Consulting ( IVC.)

An Alumni of Stanford University, Isabel was a frequent guest speaker at their Alumni Summer Executive Series and the Business School.

Isabel was also guest lecturer and public speaker at numerous corporate, trade, professional and academic organizations.

Isabel published five In-Culture marketing books (www.paramountbooks.com) and is the recipient of prestigious awards. In 2016, Isabel became the first inductee into the Multi-cultural Retail Hall of Fame at the Multicultural Retail 360 Summit, Progressive Grocer (now https://ensembleiq.com/ ).

She was a member of PepsiCO/Frito-Lay’s Ethnic Advisory Board,(Purchase, NY and Dallas, TX), NCLR, (now, https://UnidosUSA, Washington, D.C.)., the Latino Community Foundation, (LCF.org San Francisco) and a co-founding member and Vice-President of the Chile California Council (CCC) in the U.S.

Presently, she is a Member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony and heads its Marketing Committee, she continues as a board member of the Chile California Council and is currently working on a new book.

She spends her time between San Francisco and Napa (CA), Santa Fe (NM) and Santiago, Chile.

Prior to joining Gunderson Dettmer, Dan was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and has also worked in London and as an Associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati law firm in Palo Alto, California and as Counsel at Goodwin Procter law firm in Menlo Park, California
Through his involvement with the global non-profit Endeavor, Dan has played an active role in supporting the continued growth of Latin American entrepreneurs. Daniel was invited to serve as a panelist at two Endeavor International Selection Panels in Uruguay (December 2011) and Colombia (May 2012).
Dan was educated at Harvard Law School and Stanford University. He also studied as an exchange student at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the mid 1990s where he met his future wife Francisca.
Dan currently lives with his wife Francisca and their two children – both dual Chile-US citizens, he is proud to report—in Los Altos, California.

Focus Areas

Focus Areas

Focus Areas

Current Projects

Clean Energy Conference, Sacramento, CA

Inclusion and Diversity in the Workplace

Private and Public Emergency Response

Chispa Spark Funding Program

Officers

Lovell “Tu” Jarvis

Rafael Friedmann

Jake Leraul

Cristián Sjögren

Staff

Matías Alcalde

Josefina Edwards

Founding Director

Agustin Huneeus

Previous Executive Directors

Cristóbal Barros

Juan Ibañez

Ricardo Rodriguez

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