Beatriz Cardenas

Air Quality Director and Global Air Quality Co-Lead, WRI Mexico

Bio

Beatriz is Air Quality Manager at WRI Mexico. She is an expert in air pollution, with experience in both science and policy, from the study of biological processes to treat air pollutants, to the design and implementation of integrated policies to achieve clean air. She joined WRI to lead air quality work at WRI Mexico and works on developing strategies and programs to accelerate the path to a cleaner air.

Prior to join WRI, she was the General Director of Air Quality Management, during 2017 and 2018, in Mexico City's Secretary of Environment. For more than a decade, she led the air pollution experimental research area at the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change. She worked as air quality project leader at Centro Mario Molina in Mexico City and Director of Air Quality at the Megalopolis Environmental Commission for central region of Mexico.

Cardenas has co-authored several papers and has participated in several research projects, including the major field campaigns in Mexico City Metropolitan Area in 2003 and 2006. She was distinct by the National Researcher System as National Researcher Level 1 during 2007-2017 and research candidate from 1999-2006.

She participated as Mexican Delegate at IPCC and CCAC and as expert in the Stockholm Convention Experts Group and the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

She was Fulbright-Garcia Robles scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she got a MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering. She is a Biochemical Engineer from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, an alumni of the Lead Mexico (Cohort 10), and holds a degree in Advance Studies in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva.

She enjoys reading, walking and spending time with family and Friends. She lives in Mexico City with her husband Mauricio, sons Adrian and Bruno, and dogs, Drake and Layla.

Blogs

The Most Successful Air Pollution Treaty You’ve Never Heard Of
by Elizabeth Moses, Beatriz Cardenas and Jessica Seddon - February 25, 2020
International consensus on cross-border environmental issues has been hard to come by, but a 40-year-old air pollution treaty has enjoyed great if largely unsung success, leading to cleaner air, healthier forests and the prevention of hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.
INSIDER: What’s in a Question? Finding Innovative Solutions for Air Pollution
by Beatriz Cardenas, Jessica Seddon and Stefaan Verhulst - October 24, 2019
We know that air pollution is a big problem – for health, climate, food security and more. But there’s a difference between generally knowing that “we need to do something” and actually marshalling the allies, resources and power to act.

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In the Distance: Clean Air Post-COVID-19

June 18, 2020

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