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

Focus Areas

Natural Resource Management

State and Society

Focus Areas

Natural Resource Management

“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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Chile California Conference C3

Inclusion and Diversity in the Workplace

Coming Soon

UC Davis Chile Partnership Program

Private and Public Emergency Response

Coming Soon

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

Isabel Valdes

Vice-President in California

Jake Leraul

Treasurer

Dan Green

Secretary

Staff

Ricardo Rodriguez

Executive Director

Josefina Edwards

Program Manager

Who We Are

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. to be part of our board? We’d love to hear from you!

Lovell “Tu” Jarvis

President

Isabel Valdes

Vice-President in California

Jake Leraul

Treasurer

Dan Green

Secretary

Staff

Ricardo Rodriguez

Executive Director

Josefina Edwards

Program Manager

Who We Are

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. to be part of our board? We’d love to hear from you!

Lovell “Tu” Jarvis

President

Isabel Valdes

Vice-President in California

Jake Leraul

Treasurer

Dan Green

Secretary

Staff

Ricardo Rodriguez

Executive Director

Josefina Edwards

Program Manager

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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.

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.

Isabel Valdés is a pioneer in Integrated Multi-Cultural marketing strategies. For more than 15 years, Ms. Valdés was the CEO of an award winning marketing research and consulting company that she founded: Hispanic Market Connections, Inc. (HMC.) Her clients include Fortune 500, non-profits and government in the US and abroad. She published five books and received numerous awards. For a decade Ms. Valdes was a member of PepsiCO/Frito-Lay’s Ethnic Advisory Board,(Purchase, NY) and NCLR, The National Council of La Raza (Washington, D.C.). Presently she is a Member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony and heads its Marketing Committee. For many years, Ms. Valdés was a lecturer for the Summer Executive Series and the Business School at Stanford University, her Alma Mater. She is a frequent guest lecturer and public speaker at numerous professional and academic organizations, as well as in corporate private programs. Isabel Valdés lives in San Francisco, California.

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.

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.

Ricardo received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2002 and after graduation he worked in finance and investments for private companies including American banks and mining companies assuming increasing responsibilities. Motivated to contribute to his country from a different perspective, in 2010, Ricardo joined the Government of Chile in the Ministry of Mining as Head of Public Policy. In that position, he developed several programs to foster innovation among different scale companies that support mining operations. Additionally, through public-private partnerships, he actively supported the implementation of training initiatives that involved underrepresented groups in this crucial industry, such as women and vocational education students. In 2014, inspired by his experience in the public sector, Ricardo started the Master of Development Practice graduate program at the University of California Berkeley, which combines studies in development economics and sustainable development and is housed in the College of Natural Resources. During the second year of his Master’s program, Ricardo did his capstone project for the Jesuit Refugee Service, assessing impacts for its online higher education program for refugees in Kenya and Malawi. While Ricardo was a graduate student he was teaching assistant for the courses The Southern Border, California and Economic Development in the Departments of Education, Geography and Economics respectively.

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.