"Environmental Policies in Chile: Past, Present and Future," will be a conversation between Chile’s Environment Minister, Maisa Rojas (IRI'01), who will be in New York in the context of Water Week 2023, and Mauricio Cárdenas, director of the School of International and Public Affairs' (SIPA) MPA in Global Leadership.
- Maisa Rojas, a physicist and climatologist, she was a 2000-2001 postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). Prior to her appointment as Minister, she was the director of the Center for Climate Science and Resilience Research (CR2 Chile), a professor at Universidad de Chile's Department of Geophysics, and was the coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate report on the current and future state of world climate.
- Mauricio Cárdenas is a Professor of Professional Practice in Global Leadership at SIPA, a Global Senior Research Fellow at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy where he conducts research on energy and climate policy, and was formerly Minister of Finance of Colombia.
