Antonina Ivanova

Professor-researcher of the Economics Department and coordinator of the APEC Studies Center, at the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur. Researcher level II of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She represented Mexico in the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) within the framework of the United Nations (UN) as vice-chair of Working Group 3 "Mitigation" from 2008 to 2016. She holds a PhD in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with cum laude distinction. She holds a postdoctoral degree in Security and Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. She conducts research on international cooperation about climate action, tourism and sustainable development. She has authored or edited 23 books and more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Lead author of the Fourth and Sixth IPCC Assessment Reports. Editor of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy, in addition to two chapters in the Mexican Climate Change Report (PINCC-UNAM). In 2017 she received the Science and Technology Award and the Medal for Scientific and Technological Merit of the State of Baja California Sur. In 2021 she was distinguished with the Recognition of the University of Colima for her contribution to studies on the Pacific Basin. Among her recent publications we can find "The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum APEC: three decades of history and scenarios for the future’’.

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