Rodel Lasco, PhD

Main Campus, 1977

Dr. Rodel D. Lasco, MC '77 has more than 40 years of experience in natural resources and environmental research, conservation, education and development at the national and international level. His work has focused on issues related to natural resources conservation, climate change and land degradation. He is an author of several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2007 co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in the Philippines. He is the Executive Director of the Oscar M. Lopez Center, a private foundation whose mission is to discover science-based solutions for climate adaptation and disasters risk reduction. He is an affiliate professor at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños.

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