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Jorge Daniel Taillant

Executive Director

Jorge Daniel Taillant is a seasoned global advocate for environmental justice and environmental protection. His career spans several decades, working with international development agencies, as an advisor to governments and with civil society organizations in Latin America and around the world promoting innovative approaches to environmental protection, fostering sustainability criteria in international development finance, and by working to promote greater corporate accountability in the area of sustainable development.

He has worked for the last decade to tackle the escalating climate emergency through aggressively reducing the rate of global warming in the short term by phasing out the most intense climate pollutants, such as methane, black carbon and HFCs, while building climate resilience and strengthening adaptive capacity in the most climate-vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

Most recently, Mr. Taillant served as Climate Justice Policy Advisor at the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) promoting more ambitious climate action targeting short-lived climate pollutants and worked closely with the UN’s Climate and Clean Air Coalition as an advisor on strategies to reduce methane and black carbon emissions.

Mr. Taillant brings to the CEC a breadth and depth of experience in sustainable development, environmental justice, and climate policy through community engagement and public participation.

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Executive Director

Nathalie Daoust

Director, Government Relations, Strategy and Performance

Angela Nembavlakis

Director, Administration

Paolo Solano Tovar

Director, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

Orlando Cabrera-Rivera

Head of Unit, Environmental Quality

Georgina O’Farrill

Head of Unit, Outreach and Partnerships

Marcela Orozco

Head of Unit, Advisory Groups and Private Sector Engagement

Lucie Robidoux

Head of Unit, Ecosystems

Patrick Tonissen

Head of Unit, Communications

Armando Yáñez Sandoval

Head of Unit, Green Growth

Timothy Gull

Officer, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Affairs

Caitlin McCoy

Legal Officer, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

Cezar Anghel

Manager, Information Technology

Frantz Bernard

Manager, Human Resources

Frantzy Charles

Comptroller

Antonia Andúgar Miñarro

Project Lead, Green Growth

Antoine Asselin-Nguyen

Project Lead, Ecosystems

Catherine Boyd Michaud

Project Lead, Ecosystems

Elizabeth Campos Sánchez

Project Lead, Environmental Quality

José Antonio Casis

Lead, Planning and Performance

Dominique Croteau

Project Lead, Geospatial and Environmental Information

Ilse Esparza Magaña

Project Lead, Green Growth

Samantha Gagnon

Lead, Advisory Groups and Private Sector Engagement

Julie Amina Jacquemin

Lead, Outreach, Partnerships and Youth Engagement

Alaïs Nevert

Lead, Communications

Natalia Andrea Restrepo Velez

Project Lead, Environmental Quality

Danielle Vallée

Project Lead, North American PRTR Initiative

Mónica Valtierra Brestchneider

Project Lead, Green Growth

Dora Alvarez

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Marilou Nichols

Administrative Coordinator, Publications

Liliana Paz Miller

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Violaine Pronovost

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Mariana Beltrán

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Natalia Cardona

Assistant, Meeting Services

Carmen Cimpian

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Malika Elhadj

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Simonetta Ferrante

Assistant to the Director, Administration

Andrea Gambarini

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Nicole Goñi

Assistant, Ecosystems

Erika Hercules

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Rocío de la Infiesta

Assistant to the Director, Government Relations, Strategy and Performance

Michel Lafortune

File Management and Office Clerk

Linda Lee

Accounting Clerk

Doris Millan

Assistant to the Director, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

Ashfak Reza

Support Technician, Information Technology

Eleonor Fascilla

Consultant, Outreach and Partnerships

Pascale Khoury-Samia

Consultant, Strategy and Performance

Giulia Brito Pound

Intern, Executive Director’s office

Aranza Castrejón

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