Adrián Fernández-Bremauntz
Dr. Adrián Fernández has worked for more than 30 years on climate change and environmental policy in Mexico. He is a leading expert in areas such as air pollution, environmental health, and toxic substances, and has published extensively on these topics. Dr. Fernandez was general director of Environmental Management and Information (1995-2000) and general director of Local, Regional, and Global Contamination (2001-2004) at the Ministry of the Environment, as well as president of the National Institute of Ecology (2005- 2011). Internationally, he has chaired high-level committees, including bilateral committees, with the US EPA, and the Frontera XXI Program, and the Trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation. He was appointed vice president for Latin America at the 14th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development in New York (2006) and was Mexico's representative at the UN IPCC (2000-2006). He was Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research and has been a visiting scholar at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Resources Institute. Dr. Fernández has attended the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, first as a senior member of the Mexican Delegation (2001-2010) and then on behalf of LARCI/ICM (2011-2018). He is a member of the Megalopolis Environmental Advisory Committee, a member of the Mexico City Mayor's Advisory Committee on Air Pollution, and a member of the National Advisory Committee on Climate Change.
