José Luis Lezama
José Luis Lezama earned his PhD in Social Sciences with specialization in Environmental Policy at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University College London. Dr. Lezama was the Director of the Centre for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) of El Colegio de México (2003-2009) and Director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Environmental Studies at the same institution. He was Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Air, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, being coordinator of Environmental Policy and Institutional Analysis in the Mexico City Air Quality Project under the coordination of the Nobel prize Dr. Mario Molina. Dr. Lezama was a columnist in the Mexican newspaper Reforma (1996-2014) writing on environmental, technological and social issues. He has recently been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nation Program on Human Settlements UN Habitat, is Honourable Mention in the Mexican National Ecological Award and National Prize in Environmental Journalism 2008. Dr. Lezama is the author of eight books and more than 200 articles in books, journals and newspapers in Mexico and abroad on environment, social theory and urban development. |
Event: Las Negociaciones Climáticas de Paris 2015 y el Futuro del Clima Planetario