Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo
Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo is an academic and an independent international consultant in environmental science and engineering who advises the Sustainability Office (Coordinación de Sustentabilidad) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Environment and Sustainability Leadership Program (LEAD-México) of the College of Mexico (Colmex). He recently served as a special envoy for scientific affairs to the United Nations; he has also held the position of Director of Environment with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as Director for Climate Action and Environment for Latin America with the same organization. In Mexico, he served as Deputy Minister for Environmental Planning and Policy with the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), acting in that capacity as lead negotiator in the run-up to the Paris Accord.
Lacy Tamayo holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de México (UAM). He studied and worked for ten years with the 1995 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Dr. Mario Molina, at the Centro Mario Molina for Strategic Studies on Energy and Environment. From 2008 to 2012, he was a member of the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). He coordinated and coauthored Mexico’s first State of the Environment Report and is the author of a wide range of publications on environmental planning and air quality.