About Me: Vanessa Pérez-Cirera is an environmental economist focusing on international climate policy and economics. She served as Deputy Policy Director at the Mexican Ministry of Environment before joining WWF in 2002, where she held senior management positions in Mexico and internationally for the global network. She worked on topics such as energy transformation and business engagement, among others.

She left WWF to go to academia where she headed the Research Program on Sustainable Development for Universidad Iberoamericana. She returned to WWF in 2017 as Global Deputy for Climate & Energy for WWF International. In this role, she has worked on net-zero carbon pathways, policy and coalition formation.

Pérez-Cirera holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad Iberoamericana, a Master’s degree in Development Policy and a PhD in Environmental Policy, both from the University of York, United Kingdom.