Santiago Lorenzo Alonso

Santiago Lorenzo Alonso is the Head of Green Finance for WWF Global Climate and Energy Initiative and the Advocacy Leader for the WWF Seize your power global campaign.

Formerly he was the Deputy General Director of Multilateral Environmental Agreements in the International Affairs Unit of the Mexican Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

He is also a PhD candidate for the Autonomus University of Barcelona’s in environmental sciences / ecological economics. He has been an independent consultant in environmental economics, particularly regarding economic instruments for environmental protection, environmental tax reform, economic valuation of biodiversity, finance for sustainable development and GMOs.

From 2001 to march 2007, he was Director of the Legal and Environmental Analysis in the Mexican Ministry of Finance. He coordinated the development of environmental fiscal instruments and the review of perverse subsidies.

Previously, his former appointment was at the Mexican National Institute of Ecology as Director of Environmental Economics. He also was vice-chairman in the OECD working group on economics aspects of biodiversity (1999-2001). Through this period, three handbooks were produced from this working group.

Lorenzo is an economist and has an MSc in environmental assessment and evaluation in the London School of Economics and Political Science.