Rebecca Pearl-Martinez
Fireside #4 Speaker
Rebecca Pearl-Martinez is the Executive Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), which convenes faculty working on diverse sustainability topics across the university. For over two decades she has worked to advance the social and equity dimensions of renewable energy and climate change policy with UN agencies, international organizations, governments, and industry. More recently she served as Research Fellow and Head of the Renewable Equity Project at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Visiting Lecturer on climate change governance at Tufts University. In 2016, she received the C3E Advocacy Award (Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Initiative) from the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University. She started her career with community development initiatives and the United Nations in Latin America, and leading the Women’s Major Group process for Rio+10 (World Summit on Sustainable Development). Her current research interests include the prospects for a just transition in Latin America’s renewable energy auctions, and the challenges faced by industrial legacy cities in the US and Global South in realizing energy transition goals.