Francisco Meza

Francisco Meza is the Director of the Centro de Cambio Global at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and co-Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) Center for Water Security in the Americas AQUASEC. He is member of the IPCC task group TGICA and Lead Author of the AR5 of IPCC. His areas of research are focused on understanding impacts of Global Change on Agriculture, Forest and Water Resources and the development of adaptation strategies for these sectors. He has been lead investigator of several national and international grants and main advisor of a dozen of graduate students. He has also served as member of the advisory committee on Climate Change for the ministry of agriculture in Chile.