Luz Abusaid

Luz E. Abusaid is part of the emissions’ desk in BNP Paribas London, where she has worked as a marketer covering Latin America since 2007. Prior to moving to London, Abusaid worked in the Center for Energy and Technology of the Americas in Miami, Florida where she performed research on hemispheric energy cooperation for the US Department of Defense. Ms. Abusaid has an MBA, an International Relations degree and attended Law School in her native country of Colombia.

Remigio Alvarez Prieto

Director of International Business Development – Bancomext - Fondo Mexicano de Carbono (FOMECAR).

Ing. Remigio Alvarez Prieto

Ingeniero en Cibernética por La Universidad La Salle, en México

Con maestría en Dirección de Empresas (MBA) por el Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE), también en México 

Remigio Alvarez Prieto es Director de Desarrollo de Negocios Internacionales de Bancomext, y está a cargo de la promoción de servicios de financiamiento para las pequeñas y medianas empresas exportadoras mexicanas, las PYMEX, y también participa activamente en el desarrollo de productos y servicios financieros que permitan atender al comercio exterior.  Así mismo, es responsable de las alianzas estratégicas con organismos nacionales e internacionales, que ayuden al cumplimiento del mandato del banco, 

Anteriormente, estuvo en NAFIN como responsable de la internacionalización del programa de Cadenas Productivas en otros países de Centro y Sudamérica, una herramienta de financiamiento electrónico que provee liquidez a la PYME. También participó en el desarrollo de productos de financiamiento para las empresas exportadoras. 

El Ing. Álvarez tiene más de doce años de experiencia trabajando en proyectos relacionados con innovación y desarrollo de negocios.

Francisco Barnes, Jr.

Associate Principal, McKinsey & Co., Mexico Office – United States

Roberto Capuano

Roberto Capuano is a project manager at EcoSecurities, the largest carbon development company under the Clean Development Mechanism in the world. At EcoSecurities, Roberto recruits new projects into EcoSecurities’ portfolio. Recently, Roberto collaborated in the development of the
world’s first approved sustainable housing methodology under the Clean Development Mechanism.  Roberto has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Rutgers University in New Jersey.  Before EcoSecurities, Roberto worked in Chicago developing bioenergy projects in the US and Canada.

Daniel Chacon-Anaya

General Manager, Border Environment Cooperation Commission

Robert Noël de Tilly

Robert Noël de Tilly has been a senior administrator in the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks of Québec since 1995. He was successively Coordinator for the plan to eliminate PCBs, Director of the Office on Climate Change, Director of Air Quality Policies and Special Adviser for Climate Change attached to the Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister for Climate Change. 

Since 1998 his brief has been in the area of climate change. He has been in charge of preparing and implementing two climate change action plans for the Government of Québec, and he participated in the writing of the New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEGC) Climate Change Action Plan. 

Mr. Noël de Tilly has followed international negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol for quite some time.  

Since 2007, he has devoted most of his time to the North American Carbon Market and represents the Government of Québec on the Board of Governors of the Climate Registry, at the Western Climate Initiative and the International Carbon Action Partnership. He also represents the Government of Québec in negotiations on the Annexes to the Canada - United States Air Quality Agreement. 

Justin Felt

Justin is a Product Manager at Point Carbon, where he oversees the company's carbon offset analysis products for North America.  Previously, he has worked with Dow Chemical and Weyerhaeuser, performing due diligence on carbon offsets projects for their respective businesses.  He also co-authored the academic publication entitled "Renewable Power, Policy, and Cost of Capital."  Justin holds an MBA/MS from the University of Michigan through the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise.

Adrián Fernández

Adrián Fernández Bremauntz is a Biologist with an MSc in Environmental Technology from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London, UK and a PhD in Environmental Science from the same Institution. He also carried out post-doctorate research activities at the Harvard School of Public Health with support from the McNamara Fellowships Program of the World Bank. Dr. Fernández has experience as consultant for both the private and public sector, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). He is author and co-author of several articles and books. He has been occasional lecturer and guest instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Since 1995, Dr. Fernández has occupied senior positions at the Environment Secretariat: General Director for Environmental Management and Information (1995-2000) and General Director for Research on Urban, Regional and Global Pollution (2001-2005). He was in charge of the negotiations with the Japanese government that led to the creation of the National Center for Environmental Research and Training, the best equipped laboratory in Latin America to carry out pollution exposure studies. He was a pioneer in the assessment of commuters´exposure to air pollution in Mexico, including the adaptation of a methodology to carry out the first comprenhensive assessment of the personal exposure changes in commuters before and after the construction of the first bus rapid transit in Mexico City. In March 2005 he was appointed President of the National Institute of Ecology, the research and think tank agency within the Environment Secretariat in Mexico. He served as member of the Bureau for Latin America at the Commission for Sustainable Development. For many years he represented Mexico at the OECD Environmental Performance of Countries work-group and he is now member of the Climate Change Annex I Expert Group also at the OECD.

Gabriela González- Merla Laguna

Representante de Goodrich Riquelme en Europa

Educación: Escuela Libre de Derecho, México, D.F. (1998); London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LLM Environmental Law; Reino Unido 2001); Universidad Iberoamericana, México, D.F. (Diploma Derecho y Política Ambiental en México 1999-2000); Research Center Jülich (Diploma Cambio Climático Mitigación y Adaptación. Alemania, 2003). Otros estudios: El Colegio de México (México Contemporáneo; México D.F., verano 1995); Universidad de San Petersburgo (Historia y situación sociopolítica de Rusia; Rusia; marzo 2001; La Sorbonne (Historia y Civilización Francesa; Francia, verano 2006).

Miembro: Barra Mexicana de Abogados.

Áreas de ejercicio: Derecho Ambiental; Cambio Climático; Derecho Energético; Derecho Corporativo; Derecho Administrativo; Derecho de Bienes Raíces y Desarrollos Turísticos.

Steven Gray

Steven leads the UN regulatory and policy stream and advices Climate Change Capital’s funds on policy and regulatory developments of the international carbon market and broader international climate policy developments. In relation to CCC’s research programme he focuses on financing mechanisms and financial products to support policy incentives.

Prior to joining CCC he worked on linkages between climate change regulation and development at ODI (Overseas Development Institute). As a qualified Mexican lawyer he has experience in environmental and planning law. He has provided legal advice to international and domestic companies with regard to compliance with environmental legislation and has negotiated with Mexican environmental authorities on behalf of clients.

Steven holds a law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a Master in Law from the London School of Economics.

Rodolfo Lacy

He is the Research Coordinator for Energy and Environment Projects at the Mario Molina Center (Centro Mario Molina), Mexico.

He coordinated and edited the first State of the Environment Report in Mexico, and is the author of the book "Air Quality in the Valley of Mexico." In 1994 he was  awarded with a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in the program "Leadership for the Environment and Sustainable Development" (LEAD). He is the founding president of the Environmental Engineers Association of Mexico, and former head of advisors to the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources for Mexico. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico, and an M.S. in Environmental Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joel Levin

As the Climate Action Reserve's Vice President of Business Development, Joel Levin is responsible for strategic development of the Reserve and has overseen its development from inception to its current status as the recognized environmental standard for carbon offset projects in the United States. He is the Reserve's primary liaison to the business community and is a frequent and popular speaker on the Reserve's programs and other climate change topics.

Joel has served as staff to the California Market Advisory Committee and the California Climate Action Team. Prior to working at the Reserve, Joel worked at Feeva Wireless in Berkeley and APX in Santa Clara. He has also served on the Capitol Hill staff of Senator Timothy E. Wirth (D-Colorado).

Joel is a member of the Sierra Club's National Global Warming and Energy Committee and former chair of the Energy Committee in both the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Chapters of the Sierra Club. In these roles, he has been active in promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency as key elements in California's energy future. Joel holds an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Luis López Martinelli

Luis López Martinelli has a diverse business and entrepreneurial background. His early career started with the development and management of international academic programs in non-profit organisations. He later moved on to the construction materials industry where he had several different roles in Mexico and the USA ranging from project management in several business areas to commercial strategy implementation and post merger integration projects.  
 
Luis López Martinelli is now responsible for DNV’s Climate Change Unit covering the region of Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and Colombia. Some of the services provided by the unit include: validation and verification of Green House Gas (GHG) emission reduction projects, GHG inventory verification, and advisory and design of policies and strategies for the management of GHG for public and private entities. 

Blas Pérez Henríquez

Blas Pérez Henríquez directs the Goldman School of Public Policy’s Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is particularly interested in creating innovative and cost-effective policies to address global environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity decline. He is focused on bringing such policies to the developing world. He currently conducts research on topics such as environmental finance and carbon markets. He participates regularly as an academic observer at the Annex I Expert Group of the United National Climate Change Convention, a support group at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that develops policy alternatives to address global warming.

Michael Ridley

Michael works as a consultant to the Carbon Trust communicating with companies how they can benefit from adjusting to a low carbon economy. Recent projects have focussed on the metals and mining sectors, oil and gas, and airlines. His current research projects include carbon markets, auctioning of carbon credits, and innovative financing methods for environmental products and services.

Prior to working for the Carbon Trust, Michael worked for Citigroup for nine years as a credit analyst covering energy, power and utility companies, based in London. He covered a wide range of companies including emerging market, distressed and high grade companies. Michael worked for Mizuho for two years before moving to Citigroup.

Michael gained a PhD in Environmental Economics in 1997 from University College London. His doctoral supervisor was Professor David Pearce. Michael's PhD was published as a book, Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction: Joint Implementation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. He won a three year scholarship from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council to finance his doctoral studies.

Michael has gained two Masters degrees. He gained an MA in International and Development Economics at Yale University in 1993, and an MSc in Politics of the World Economy at the London School of Economics in 1989. He has a BA (Hons) in Political Theory from Liverpool University.

Michael is married with two children and lives in London. He ran the Eton sprint triathlon in July 2009.

Ambassador Andrés Rozental

Andrés Rozental was Mexico’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997. He was a career diplomat for more than 35 years, having served his country as Deputy Foreign Minister (1988-1994), Ambassador to Sweden (1983-88), Permanent Representative of México to the United Nations in Geneva (1982-83), as well as in various responsabilities within the Mexican Foreign Ministry and abroad. Since 1994, he holds the permanent rank of Eminent Ambassador of México.

Currently, Ambassador Rozental holds non-executive Board positions in several important multinational corporations in Brazil, United States, France, the United Kingdom and México. He is the President of his own consulting firm, Rozental & Asociados, that specializes in advising multinational companies on their corporate strategies in Latin America. He is also active in a number of non-governmental organizations and projects relating to global governance, migration policy, climate change, Latin American politics and the promotion of democracy.

Ambassador Rozental obtained his profesional degree in international relations from the Universidad de las Américas in México, and his Master’s in International Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of three books on Mexican foreign policy and of numerous articles on international affairs. 

Fernando Tudela

Undersecretary, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT); Vice Minister for Planning and Environmental Policy and the Principal Negotiator of Climate Change Issues in Mexico.

• Studied at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid and in Seville. Title obtained in 1971. Won the National Award, For best Academic Record.
• Private practice.
• Researcher at Portsmouth Polytechnic and at the School of Environmental Studies, University College, London University, England.
• Doctorate in Architecture, University of Seville. Won the Award for Best Doctoral Thesis.
• Lecturer at the Iberoamericana University, Mexico City.
• Research Fellow at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (Xochimilco campus), Mexico City.  Winner of First Research Award.
• Officer, United Nations Human Settlements Programme; Consultant to various United Nations agencies.
• Research Fellow at the Centre of Demographic and Urban Development Studies of the Colegio de México, Mexico City.  Director of the Advanced Studies Programme in Environment and Sustainable Development.
• Academic Director of the LEAD Programme, Mexico.
  Coordinator of the Advisers to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Natural
• Resources and Fisheries of the Government of Mexico (1995-2000). Chairman  of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change.
• Research Fellow  El Colegio de México, Mexico City. Director of the Programme “Water, Environment and Society”.

José Antonio Urteaga

Deputy Director General, Climate Change Projects, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). Special Program on Climate Change (PECC).

Mark Wenzel

Mark Wenzel works in the Climate Change Unit of the California Environmental Protection Agency and leads the Western Climate Initiative's Market Oversight Task Group. Prior to joining Cal/EPA he worked for the California Air
Resources Board's Office of Climate Change and for U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd as the 2006 -2007 American Geophysical Union/American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science Fellow. Mark received a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006.

Dimitri Zenghelis

Dimitri Zenghelis headed the Stern Review Team at the Office of Climate Change in London and currently advises Cisco’s long term innovation group as Chief Economist of their Climate Change practice. Previously, he was a senior economist who has spent a year working with Lord Stern on the Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown. He continues to act as an advisor to the UK Government and Lord Stern at the LSE where he is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Dimitri joined HM Treasury in 1999 providing economic analysis and advice for the UK Government as Head of Economic Forecasting and Head of the European Monetary Union Analysis Branch.