Douglas studied at “The Grange School” and “Colegio Verbo Divino” and received his degree in Industrial Civil Engineering from the University of Chile.
His professional background has covered administration, commercial, manufacturing and C.E.O. areas, having taken part in projects from design and assessment stages through implementation and subsequent administration. He has worked in food, mining, manufacturing, computer, telecommunications, IT&C services, real estate & construction, postgraduate university teaching, training and consulting, financial services, in both Chilean and American companies and institutions.
Douglas, as a Civil Industrial Engineer, for the last five years has dedicated to studying in depth Climate Change from the science and economics perspective, without neglecting its moral aspect.
His efforts are focused on spreading this vision, banned not only in Chile but throughout the Latin American continent, in order to warn companies, education institutions, unions and the government of the unnecessary harm that mitigation and adaptation measures to fight climate change are and will continue to cause to economies that adopt them.