Beatriz Cardenas is an expert in air pollution, with experience in both science and policy, from research on air pollutants characterization, to the design and implementation of integrated policies to achieve clean air for all.
She leads the One Atmosphere´s team at the Ross Center for Sustainable Cities as Global Air Quality director. WRI’s One Atmosphere approach seeks to integrate action on air pollution, health, equity and climate by driving strategic alignment and fostering collaboration through diverse projects including: Clean Air Catalyst, CanAIRy Alert, SEA Community of Practice, Participatory Science, Integrated emissions inventories, among others.
Prior to WRI, she was the General Director of Air Quality Management 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.
She 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 participated as Mexican Delegate at the IPCC bureau and CCAC, and as country 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, Alumni of: Autonomous Metropolitan University (Industrial Biochemical Engineer), Lead Mexico (Cohort 10) and University of Geneva (Advance Studies in Environmental Diplomacy).