Macarena is an Industrial Civil Engineer with a major in Environmental Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She has been working since 2000 in projects related with brine extraction and knows in detail all aspects involved to develop a sustainable lithium project. She was the first environmental engineer working for SQM, and defined the basis for actual EIS for the brine extraction plan and many over the 60 production unit operations. After SQM she dedicated her career as a consultant for industrial projects in the High Andes (Altiplano), covering several Salars such as Salar de Atacama, Ascotán, Isla, Olaroz and Maricunga.