Dr. Ramón Pichs-Madruga specializes in the academic research of the socio-economic aspects of environmental protection and sustainable development, including the development and assessment of socio-economic and environmental scenarios, as well as methods for the economic assessment of ecosystem services and biodiversity.

Work in IPCC:

Member of the IPCC Bureau since 1997.

At the time of the preparation of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC, he was Vice-Chair of the Working Group III (mitigation and methods of achieving its objectives).

Fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Russian (basic).

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Trade Economics from the University of Havana, a Master's degree in Social Sciences from Lund University (Sweden), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Other positions:

• Senior Professor, Department of Economics, University of Havana, Cuba
• Visiting professor at several universities in Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, China, Colombia, and South Africa
• Member of the National Climate Change Team since 1991

Member of the working groups:

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
• Mexican Academy on Political Economics (AMEP)

As an expert in socio-economic and environmental scenarios and methodologies for economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, he participated in scientific collaborations, such as United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) for the GEO (Global Environment Outlook), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).