Mr. Fernando TUDELA

Mr. Fernando TUDELA
Vice Minister for Planning and Environmental Policy and Principal Negotiator on Climate Change Issues in Mexico

Born in Seville, Spain (1945),  Mexican.

  • 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”.

Author of numerous books and articles relating to various aspects of environment and development.


Currently:

  • Vice Minister for Planning and Environmental Policy and the Principal Negotiator of Climate Change Issues in Mexico.