Roberto Herrera
Country Manager for the Dominican Republic, Member of Board of Directors, InterEnergy Group
Herrera is an energy sector executive and business leader who currently serves as Managing Director, Country Manager for the Dominican Republic and a Director of the Board of Interenergy Group. He is also CEO and board member of the following Interenergy companies: La Compañía de Electricidad de San Pedro de Macorís (ENERGAS) and Executive Director and Vicepresident of the Board of Consorcio Energético Punta Cana-Macao (CEPM), Compañía de Electricidad de Bayahibe (CEB), Grupo Eólico Dominicano (GEDOM), Interenergy Systems (thermal energy and software solutions), EVERGO (electric vehicle charging stations) and ACTIVA (a telecomunications company).
Roberto also oversees Energas interest in Enadom an LNG infrastructure company in partnership with AES. Herrera serves on the board of several business and non profit organizations in the Dominican Republic and in the USA. He is a member of the executives committees of CONEP, AIRD, AMCHAMDR. Also, he is President of the Dominican Electric Industry Association (ADIE) and the Santo Domingo Water Fund, Vicepresident of the Rountable of Commonwealth Countries in the D.R., member of the Multisectoral Commision of “Marca País”, member of the board of regents of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC), director of the Board of Directors of the Dominican-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Vice-Tresurer of Fundación Sinfonía. Furthermore he is a member of the Energy Steering Committee of the Institute of the Americas.
He served as President of AMCHAMDR, of the British Chamber of Comerce in the Dominican Republic, of the European Federation Chamber of Comerce, of the Red Nacional de Apoyo Empresarial a la Protección Ambiental (ECORED) and of the Dominican Chapter of the Young Presidente Organization (YPO). In 2013 Roberto was chosen as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and landed the No.1 spot in the Top 40 under 40 ranking of local business magazine Mercado. On March 2022 he was granted an MBE from her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Roberto has an economics and MBA degrees from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1997 he received a British Chevening Scholarship to study a Master of Science in Business Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, graduating in 1998. In 2014 he concluded IESE’s Global CEO Programme (a joint IESE, Wharton and China Europe International Business School program. He has also completed post graduate courses at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Wharton.