About

Mauricio Rodas

Advisory Board Member

Former Mayor of Quito | Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Mauricio Rodas served as the Mayor of Quito, Ecuador, from 2014 to 2019. During his tenure, he successfully led the construction of the country’s first Metro line and implemented numerous initiatives to promote urban sustainability, social equity, and economic development. He hosted the UN Conference on Urban Sustainable Development – Habitat III and held prominent international positions in the main city networks, such as UCLG, C40 Cities, the Global Covenant of Mayors, and ICLEI.

Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturing on cities climate-resilient infrastructure finance; Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment; and member of the United Nations’ Committee of Experts on Public Administration. He launched the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance -co-chaired by the Mayors of Paris and Rio de Janeiro, alongside Professor Jeffrey Sachs, President of SDSN,- where he serves as Executive Secretary. As the founder and CEO of Meridio Consulting, an urban sustainable development and climate finance consultancy, he has worked with cities such as Athens, Barranquilla, Dhaka, Freetown, Miami, Melbourne, Monterrey, Santiago de Chile, Riyadh, and Seville.

In 2018, he participated at the Bloomberg Harvard Mayors Program. Recognized as one of the 100 World’s Most Influential People on Climate Action by Apolitical, he received the University of Pennsylvania’s World Urban Leadership Award and ICLEI’s Climate Action and Sustainability Leadership Award. 

He holds a JD from Universidad Católica de Quito and two master’s degrees, in Government Administration and Political Science, from the University of Pennsylvania (Fulbright Scholarship).