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| Aldo Flores-Quiroga |
FTI Consulting's strategic communications group as added top Mexico energy expert Aldo Flores-Quiroga as senior advisor in its energy & natural resources practice.
Flores Quiroga served as undersecretary of hydrocarbons at Mexico’s Ministry of Energy from 2016 to 2018. He designed the campaign to liberalize Mexico's natural gas and refined products market and negotiated its participation in the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries cartel.
Earlier Flores-Quiroga was secretary-general of the International Energy Forum, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
He has represented Mexico at the International Atomic Nuclear Agency, Nuclear Energy Agency, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Latin American and Caribbean Energy Organization, and the International Renewable Energy Agency.
At FTI, Flores Quiroga will provide issues management guidance to support the stratcomm group’s work globally and in the Mexico energy industry.
Chris Tucker, global leader of the energy & natural resources unit, said Flores-Quiroga "not only understands the most critical issues facing the energy industry around the world, but he’s also helped define them.”
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