Juan Carlos Navarro

Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, NSOLAR

Selected as one of the planet’s 100 most promising leaders by TIME magazine (1994) and as one of the key Latin American Leaders for the new Millenium by both TIME and CNN (1999), Juan Carlos Navarro is one of Panama’s prominent national figures.

Navarro was elected Mayor of Panama City (1999-2004) after winning his party’s primaries and the general election in May 1999. Navarro oversaw 6,000 municipal employees and a US$100 million annual budget (2009).

In 2015 Navarro founded NSOLAR, one of Panama’s leading solar energy start-ups, and he also served as the first President of the Solar Energy Association of Panama (2016).