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Jaime Olivares

Jaime Olivares
Profesor

Brief biography

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master’s degree in Economics from El Colegio de México.

He is a Senior Economic Affairs Assistant in the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the Subregional Headquarters in Mexico of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He previously worked as a research assistant in the Economic Development Unit and in the Agricultural Development and Climate Change Unit at ECLAC. He also served as a consultant for the project The Economics of Climate Change in Central America and the Dominican Republic, coordinated by ECLAC. He worked on The Economics of Climate Change in Mexico project, coordinated by the Faculty of Economics at UNAM at the request of Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

His work has specialized in the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change in the agricultural sector, water resources, health, energy, and ecosystems. He has expertise in the use of climate change scenario data. His studies include agricultural vulnerability to climate change and the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in Central America and the Dominican Republic. He has also contributed to publications on climate change and poverty, food security, and coffee sustainability.

His academic experience includes teaching at the Faculty of Economics and the Graduate Program in Economics at UNAM, as well as delivering training lectures on risk and climate change at various institutions throughout the region.

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