President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Pablo Daniel Taddei Arriola , a young man from Sonora who is studying for a doctorate at Harvard University, will be the head of the state agency Litio para México or LitioMx.
Taddei Arriola, an Industrial and Systems Engineer graduated from the University of Sonora, began a doctorate in Environmental Health at Harvard University in the United States in September 2018. Before, between 2015 and 2017, he did a master’s degree in Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan, according to information from the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES).
Taddei Arriola, who had one of his first jobs at the Tico Electronics maquiladora company, has worked on projects related to solar thermal energy, photovoltaic energy, energy balance and energy prospects for the state of Sonora. He also taught the subject Introduction to Renewable Energies at the University of Sonora.
On August 23, the federal government published a decree announcing the creation of the new state agency Litio for Mexico, whose acronym is LitioMx. The document establishes that the head of the state company will be appointed and removed by the president at the proposal of the head of the Energy Secretariat, a position now held by Rocío Nahle.
The president chose as head of the new state the son of an already close official: Jorge Taddei Bringas, the delegate of the Secretary of Welfare in Sonora.
This morning the president explained that the intention of this decision is to create a renewable energy pole in the state – a solar park is also being built in Sonora – and promote it within the automotive industry.
“We are developing a plan for Sonora to become a state for the generation of renewable, clean energy and also for the production of lithium batteries to boost the automotive industry in Sonora,” he said this morning.
The “uncovering” of Taddei Arriola as general director of LitioMx, a state agency responsible for managing the entire lithium value chain in the country, occurs a day after the president said that LitioMx’s headquarters will be in Sonora.
