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Monica´s LinkedIn Profile is here.

 

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Member of Steering Committees, Advisory and Governing Boards

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• Meliore Foundation - Governing Board's Chair

• Drive Electric Campaign -  Steering Committee (climate foundations)

• ZEV Declaration - Steering Committee (with ICCT, UK gov, Climate Champions)

• Global Future Council on Urban Mobility Transitions  (WEF)

• Global Partnership for Informal Transportation (New Cities)

• Association for Electric Mobility in Costa Rica  (Vice President of the Governing Board, Co-founder)​

• 2050 Pathways Platform  (European Climate Foundation

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Previous 

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• Advisory Board on Electric Mobility - Government of Chile

• Center on Climate & Resilience Research (Universidad de Chile and other universities)

• Long-Term Development Strategies Initiative - hosted by WRI & UNDP

• Government of Chile -  International Advisory Group for COP25

• Government of Costa Rica -  Decarbonisation Plan to 2050 

• Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

• Steering Committee - UNEP Emissions Gap Report

• Advisory Expert Group - Climate Vulnerability Forum

• Steering Committee co-chair - Low-Emissions Development Strategies for Latin Am & the Caribbean 

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Leadership 

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• 15 Electric Women of 2022 (TUMI, German government)

• BBC 100 Women (Dec 2021)

• “Influential Women in Mobility 2021” (Vulog) 

• “Crusader of the Year 2019” (CRUSA Foundation)

• "Big Thinker" (National Geographic interviewed her for the series "Mars", 2018)

• "Guest Editor on Women's Day 2018" (La República)

• "Inaugural Lecturer 2017" (School of Economics, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)

•  Mentor at “Next Visionaries 2017”  (TED & BMW initiative)

• "Mujeres Desafiantes 2017" (Estrategia & Negocios magazine) 

• “Personality of the Future” (2014) (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

 

Monica was the first Latin American to join the all-female expedition to Antarctica,

organised by Homeward Bound, a global leadership initiative for women.

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Co-founder

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• Monica has incubated and/or co-created several climate & mobility initiatives

  • Nivela - Global south thought-leadership initiative in the run up to COP21

  • Costa Rica Limpia -  Citizen group to advocate for a National Decarbonization Plan

  • Electric Mobility Association of  Costa Rica 

  • RouteZero - Platform hosted by the Climate Group & Climate Champions

  • LEDS-LAC - a regional collaborative platform for Latin America & the Caribbean

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• ​Monica has also created the podcast in Spanish "Ponerse Las Pilas" to share stories in Spanish about the transition to a climate and sustainable economy - including stories about mobility, consumer habits, arts, science. It is co-hosted with Dr. Marga Gual and Dr. Marcelo Mena

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Public speaking

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• She has published numerous articles and book chapters in global and local newspapers

  • Visit the "Writing" section. 

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• She is an experienced keynote speaker ​

  • Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, US Green Buildings Council, WEF, and The Climate Group, WRI, Nordic EV Summit, Zero Conference (Norway), TED.  

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• Her interviews have been featured in podcasts and online magazines.

  • See Interviews section.

  • Podcasts: The Economist, Foreign Policy, TED en Español, Schneider's innovation podcast, Fully-Charged, rEVolution podcast, Monocle, and many others in Spanish.

  • Interviews: Project Syndicate, National Geographic, Yale Environment 360, El Pais, Al-Jazeera, BBC Radio, CNN en Español, and others.

 

Monica has shared her ideas in three TED Talks

that have over 5 million views.  

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Academic degrees

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• National University of Costa Rica - Economic policy

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Economics -School of Economics

  • Master's Degree in Economic Policy (M.Sc.) - Center for International Economic Policy

• Yale University - Environmental management & policy

  • Master’s Degree (M.E.M.), Yale Environment School

  • Doctorate Degree (Ph.D.), Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

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Monica's Ph.D dissertation (2006) focused on corporate environmental disclosure

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Research

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• Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy 

• Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

• E3G 

• Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)

• World Resources Institute (WRI),

• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

• Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

• C40 

• International Investment Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

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• Monica trained with Al Gore in Sevilla, Spain in 2008.

• From 2012 onwards she has taken courses in creative writing including The Guardian & University of East Anglia Program, Oxford University's Summer School, and Amsterdam Writing Workshops. 

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