Jorge Ignacio was trained at the John F. Kennedy School of Government by Professor Cass Sunstein and Ambassador Samantha Power on how to generate change when change is hard using applied behavioral science insights, by Professor Marshall Ganz on leadership and grassroots organizing skills to achieve change through a specific action, by Professors Ronald Heifetz and Kimberly Leary on adaptive leadership, by Professor John Bower on getting things done (management skills), and by Professor Robert Wilkinson on international negotiation.

After graduation from the Kennedy School, Jorge Ignacio was accepted to the Eisenhower Fellowship to continue his research on applied behavioral science. As an Eisenhower Fellow, Jorge personally met the most prominent actors on applied behavioral science and thinkers in the US to discuss the latest innovations in the area, including Cass Sunstein, Eldar Shafir, Stephen Wendel, William Congdon, Craig Fox, Eric Johnson, Angela Duckworth, Katie Milkman, Martin Seligman, Francis Fukuyama and Dan Goldstein.

Jorge additionally has practiced as a transactional lawyer for the past 15 years in Paraguay leading the largest transactions and innovating in the legal industry through the specialized unit he founded Colab. He previously acted during 7 years as managing partner of one of the most prominent law firms in Paraguay achieving a successful transformation of its business model which still serves as a basis of its ongoing business.

Jorge also served publicly as special advisor to the Director of Itaipu Binacional (Paraguayan side), considered as Paraguay’s most important strategic infrastructure (largest hydroelectric dam of the world in terms of energy output), to advise on a roadmap for negotiations with Brazil on the terms of the Treaty that governs the operation of the dam.