About

Adviel Centeno Mayta has been general counsel and secretary at The AES Corporation since 2010 having previously served in executive
in-house legal positions and private practice at Bufete MF&Co, SAB Miller, Dimar, and Bell South part of AT&T. A senior lawyer with international experience in corporate, commercial, and energy issues in transnational companies, Centeno expertly leads the legal function of the electricity generation company responsible for all legal operations in Panama, the ethics and compliance department and serves as secretary to subsidiary companies AES Panama, AES Changuinola and Gas Natural Atlantico. AES Panama and AES Changuinola are the largest electricity generators in Panama, operating six plants across country. Gas Natural Atlantico is developing and constructing the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined energy generation facility in Panama in conjunction with a LNG terminal and tank. This deal has been a work in progress for several years with the help of Centeno and his team. A joint venture between AES and ENGIE to market and sell LNG to third parties in Central America was agreed in 2017. AES in Panama operates 777MW and has been investing US$1.4bn since 1998, and adding US$1.2m in the last two years to reduce its carbon footprint by 16m tons of carbon dioxide.