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Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo (1958 July 22), is an environmental engineer and a civil servant of México.Since December 2012 he has been Undersecretary of Planning and Environmental Policy in the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT).

Education
He studied environmental engineering with a concentration area in Air Pollution Control and Environmental Impact Assessment at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Azcapotzalco campus, graduating in 1980; He was member of the Divisional Council in Basic Sciences and Engineering and of the Academic College of that institution, representing the students of engineering. In 1994 received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to participate in El Colegio de México in the international program of Advanced Studies in Environment and Sustainable Development forming part of the third generation of this program in Mexico. In 2005, he completed master's degrees in chemical capture and carbon sequestration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America. Later in March, he graduated as a Doctor of Environmental Science and Engineering from the UAM. Since he was a student he has maintained a trade union between engineers and professionals dedicated to the protection of nature.

Career
He has been professor in different academic institutions, independent environmental consultant and public official of the federal government in the environmental sector. During his professional career he has participated in the creation of environmental institutions and regulations of the Mexican State. In 1979, he began his professional career within the federal government at the Center for Research and Training on Water Quality Control, conducting monitoring and diagnostic activities on the environmental effects of wastewater reuse in Mexico City. Later, he joined the General Directorate of Ecological Development of Human Settlements, in these function, was the technical leader of the first National Ecology Program 1984-1988 as well as coordinator of the first Report on the State of the Environment in Mexico in 1985.

Ten years later,he joined the Department of Mexico City as Director of studies and environmental projects and later, as Director General of Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution. Among other activities, it developed and provided technical assistance to the Integral Program against Atmospheric Pollution of the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City (PICCA and ProAIRE), the Comprehensive Plan for the Management of Hazardous Waste in the Valley of Mexico, Vapors in gasoline and the use of natural gas and LP for heavy-duty vehicles, the Compulsory Vehicle Verification Program and the Hoy No Circula program.

In December 2001 he was appointed Coordinator of Advisors to the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, a position from which he promoted the creation of the certification system and information on Clean Beaches, defined the Agenda for the Sea and strategies for promoting Ecotourism, Art and Environment, Holistic Livestock, protection of the Upper Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico and Protected Natural Areas with presence of indigenous groups.

In December 2012 Rodolfo Lacy was appointed by President Enrique Peña Nieto as Under Secretary of Planning and Environmental Policy at SEMARNAT, initially Secretary in charge of Mr. Juan José Guerra Abud and currently headed by Mr. Rafael Pacchiano Alamán. As an environmental consultant he has worked for the World Bank and Swisscontact in Central America and South America, as well as for several private consulting firms. From 2006 to 2010 he was appointed by the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District as Citizen Advisor to the Environmental and Territorial Ordering Office (PAOT) in Mexico City. From 2008 to 2012 he was Citizen Representative to the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CCA-JPAC).

Links

 * Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales Official website SEMARNAT
 * Centro Mario Molina Official website
 * Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Azcapotzalco Official website UAM