60 minutes with Maisa Rojas Corradi

60 minutes with Maisa Rojas Corradi,
Minister for the Environment of Chile

Tuesday 29 March 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Amphitheater Jean Moulin, 13 rue de l'université

>Maisa Rojas holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Oxford, UK. She served as an associate professor in the Department of Geophysics at the University of Chile and as director of the Center for Climate Science and Resilience (CR) 2. Her research areas are paleoclimate and regional climate change, and she also worked on impact assessment in different sectors, such as agriculture and water resources, using numerical climate models as analysis tools.

Maisa Rojas was coordinator of the Scientific Committee for COP25 of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation; She is a member of the COP25 Presidential Advisory Council and a participant in the Chilean delegation to COP26. In addition, she coordinated the Scientific Advisory Committee on Climate Change and is the lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2014. She also participated as the coordinating author of the IPCC report (AR6) in 2021.

PSIA is honored to welcome her and offer students with the opportunity of a direct dialogue with Minister Rojas Corradi. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Shiv Someshwar, scientific advisor to the Master in Environmental Policy at PSIA.