Pilar Castillo Cáceres

Pilar Castillo is a Bioengineer from Universidad de Concepción in Chile, and an MBA candidate at EGADE Business School Guadalajara. Due to her professional training and experience as a research scientist, she founded a company dedicated to the development of R&D projects for companies in different industries that want to improve their products and processes, generating value through science. Currently she is the Director of the PIR Project in northern Chile, whose objective is to valorize 95% of industrial and urban waste products produced in the area, through the creation of new high quality materials, contributing to the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the region.