Mauro Fernández

Mauro is a researcher and communicator navigating the fragile terrain where ecological collapse meets social inequality. He led climate and energy campaigns in Argentina and internationally for Greenpeace. He is a Senior Fellow on Social and Economic Equity at LSE's International Inequalities Institute and founder of Sociedad y Naturaleza. He's currently undergoing studies in Psychology and exploring the philosophical and cognitive roots of human behavior to reimagine our shared future.

Mauro has led campaigns at provincial, national and global levels, working with indigenous communities, volunteer groups, lawyers, and campaigners from around the world. From 2007 to 2020, he worked for Greenpeace in Argentina, Chile and Colombia, where he headed its Climate and Energy unit, served as its Climate Policy Advisor, and participated in its Global Climate Political Unit. He was Greenpeace’s global Spanish-language spokesperson and negotiator at a number of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings, and in December 2018 served as a civil society observer at the first G20 meeting in Latin America.

In 2009 Mauro organised a movement to push for stronger legislation against sexual offenders in Argentina. This movement was recognised at the Legislature of Buenos Aires and resulted in a national bill that created inter-disciplinary groups to assess the preparedness for social reintegration of those convicted of sexual offences and introduced new rights for victims in this process. While at Greenpeace, Mauro was chosen to serve as Integrity Officer, and designed and applied a global Integrity System in the workplace, in consultation with gender experts.

Mauro was a member of Greenpeace’s Future Leaders Programme, undertaken yearly courses on nuclear energy and climate and energy policy, and continues to develop his journalistic and narrative writing. He has served as a radio columnist and is an occasional commentator on national media on environmental and social issues.