Chemical Civil Engineer from the University of Chile specialized in aerosol science and air pollution at the University of Paris XII in France and in environmental management at the University of Chile. She has developed her entire career in the environmental field, first in regulations and air pollution, and since 2010 in climate change issues at the Ministry of Environment, performing various tasks such as coordinating the development and monitoring of the National Climate Change Action Plan, preparing National Communications on climate change, among others. She is currently the Head of National Climate Change Policy at the Ministry of Environment and the focal point of Chile in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

mJadrijevic@mma.gob.cl

Master in Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago with a specialization in Energy. He also has a master’s degree in Applied Macroeconomics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Bolivian Catholic University. He worked in the Bolivian government in the Social and Economic Policy Analysis Unit from 2005 to 2008, then he was an advisor to the Ministry of Finance of Chile (2012-2014 and 2018-2020), and an associate researcher at the Latin American Center for Economic and Social Policies (CLAPES UC) between 2014-2017 and 2020-2023. He is the director of the Bolivian Economists Society, a member of the scientific committee of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE), and a professor of the Master’s in Applied Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His research topics are macroeconomics, economic growth, sustainable development, and energy. 

lgonzalesc@bcentral.cl

Associate professor and researcher at the University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas. He has a Bachelor’s and master’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is dedicated to studying the environmental variability of natural terrestrial ecosystems, with an emphasis on forest ecosystems and mountainous environments subject to glacier fluctuations. He served as a researcher at the Quaternary Studies Center of Fire – Patagonia and Antarctica (CEQUA) between 2007 and 2013. He was an associate researcher and teaching collaborator at the Plant Ecology Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Chile. He is part of the Master’s programs in Science in Management and Conservation of Subantarctic Natural Resources and Antarctic Sciences with a mention in Glaciology at the University of Magallanes, and the Doctorate in Antarctic and Subantarctic Sciences at the same university. 

juan.aravena@umag.cl

Renewable Natural Resources Engineer from the University of Chile. She mainly supports climate change management processes. She has worked in civil society organizations, public institutions, and international cooperation organizations, and is currently an analyst at the consulting firm ImplementaSur. Her main areas of work are the development of public and private climate change policies, the development of citizen participation processes, resilience, among others. Her career also highlights her participation and leadership in various spaces, from student organization to climate activism, where she currently serves as Co-General Coordinator of LCOY Chile. She was also one of the 100 participants of the International Youth Climate Delegate Program (IYCDP) at COP28. 

emiko.sepulvedamabe@gmail.com

Environmental Scientist and Geographer with a Ph.D. from Monash University. Her research focuses on climate change’s impacts, values, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation in mountainous regions through political science. Through core projects like the Earth Systems Governance Project, she actively participates in numerous international networks and programs, including those led by the International Social Sciences Council, the International Council for Science, and Future Earth. Recently, she was appointed as a lead author for the IPCC special report “The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.” Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Mountain Research Initiative, a multidisciplinary scientific organization funded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences, responsible for coordinating scientific research and networks on global change in mountainous regions worldwide.

carolina.adler@unibe.ch

Climatologist and professor at the School of Environment, University of Antioquia, Colombia, where she directs the School of Environment. She is associated with the same institution’s Environmental Engineering and Management Research Group. Her research includes various aspects of climate change and hydroclimatic modeling in Colombia and Latin America. She was the first Colombian woman selected as an author of an IPCC report, serving as a lead author for Working Group I of the Sixth Assessment Report. She is part of the GEWEX hydro-climatology panel, a group focused on understanding the physical, social, and economic aspects of hydroclimate variations; the World Climate Research Program’s “WCRP Lighthouse Activity: My Climate Risk,” which aims to assess climate change information at a local scale; and the Intergovernmental Hydrological Program, which aims to investigate water, related disasters, and hydrological changes to support regional communities.

paola.arias@udea.edu.co

Ph.D. in Ecology from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research has focused on understanding climate, environmental, and social drivers of vector-borne diseases and other dimensions of human well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. For over fourteen years, she has collaborated with academic and governmental institutions in the region to conduct community-based socio-ecological, epidemiological, and modeling studies to inform the development of climate services for the health sector, community health interventions, and new vector control tools. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). She was previously the Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Research Program at the Institute for Global Health and Translational Science, Upstate Medical University at SUNY, from 2012 to 2019.

astewart@dir.iai.int