Michael Mendez

Dr. Michael Méndez is an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy/Planning, and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (through a National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award). He previously was the Pinchot Faculty Fellow in Sustainability Studies at the Yale School of the Environment. Michael has more than a decade of senior-level experience in the public and private sectors, where he consulted and actively engaged in the policymaking process.