Manuel PULGAR VIDAL

Global Practice Leader - Climate & Energy, WWF

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal has 35 years of experience in environmental law and policy.  He served as Minister of the Environment of Peru and President of the UNFCCC COP20 in 2014.  He has a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he is a professor, and has completed studies for a master’s degree in Business Law at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.

He is a Board member of Forest Trends, Amazon Conservation Association and Peruvian Society of Environmental Law and a member of the Assembly of the World Wide Fund for Nature - Colombia.  He has recently been added to the Aspen Institute Management and Leadership Advisory Group.  He is the chairman of the evaluation council of the French sovereign Green Bonds. He has been recognized by the governments of France, Germany and Spain and by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his contribution to the Paris Agreement.