Mauricio Luna Rodríguez
Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Change Adaptation Governance
Mauricio Luna Rodríguez is a Senior Policy Advisor with IISD's Resilience Program and the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network. His work focuses on climate change adaptation, multilevel governance, and international climate processes.
Mauricio has over 15 years of experience working in sustainable development with international and climate finance organizations, as well as research institutions, across the Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and Caribbean regions. Throughout his career, he has led climate change adaptation programs in collaboration with governments, civil society, and the private sector in a range of national and international contexts. He previously worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, supporting the design and execution of climate policies. Mauricio also has experience leading multi-level governance components of ecosystem-based adaptation initiatives, scaling up nature-based solutions in policy frameworks and taking part in the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
With an interdisciplinary academic background, Mauricio holds a master's degree in environmental studies, specializing in climate change, as well as a post-graduate Licentiate degree in education and a bachelor's degree in international relations. He is fluent in English and Spanish and has intermediate knowledge of Portuguese and French.