Juan Felipe López

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and an MPA in Public and Social Policy from the London School of Economics, UK. He has nearly 20 years of experience in public innovation. He served as Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Peñalolén and was a researcher at the Centre for Cities, a British think tank focused on the role of cities in economic development. In 2014, he led the conceptual design of the Chilean Government Innovation Lab (Laboratorio de Gobierno), the first national-level innovation lab in Latin America, where he also served as its first Executive Director from 2015 to 2018. He is a fellow at States of Change, a global network of public practitioners. Over the past eight years, he has led training, advisory and innovation programs with more than 220 local and subnational governments across 21 countries. He has also been a consultant on public innovation for the IADB, CAF, OECD, UNDP and SEGIB, and has taught on public innovation at several Chilean universities.