CURRICULUM VITAE ARNOLDO MATUS KRAMER CONTACT: Tel ...

CURRICULUM VITAE
ARNOLDO MATUS KRAMER
CONTACT: Tel. (+ 44) 07847028718
e-mail: arnoldo.matuskramer@ouce.ox.ac.uk or
arnoldomatus@hotmail.com
NATIONALITY: Mexican
BORN: September 2 nd , 1974
EDUCATION: Current doctoral research at the Environmental Change
Institute of the Oxford University Centre of the
Environment. D.Phil title: Adaptation to Climate Change in the
Tourism Sector of the Rapidly Urbanizing Yucatan Caribbean
Coast. Main supervisor Prof. Diana Liverman and second
supervisor Dr. Emma Tompkins.
Chevening-CONACYT Scholarship.
Affiliate to Tyndall PhD Researcher Network.
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Environment and Resource
Management, BTU-Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany, 2001-2003.
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Renewable Energy and
Environment, University of Reading, UK, 2002-2003.
M.Sc. Thesis: Modelling CDM Projects for Mexico City
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.): Major in Political Science, Minor in
Economics and Minor in Environment, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada, 1997-2000.
WHU Business School, Koblenz, Germany. Summer courses on
Administration at Undergraduate level, 1999.
ITAM. - Undergraduate Programme in International Relations
(First to Fourth Semester) 1995-1997.
EMPLOYMENT: Consultant for Technical Assistance in the drafting of a new
UK HMG Joint Caribbean Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy. June-July 2007.
External Collaborator for the UNDP Research for the 2007
Human Development Report. Thematic paper: Adaptation to
Climate Change in Poverty Reduction Strategies. January-
March 2007.
Senior Advisor of the National Institute of Ecology- INE
(2004- 2006). Relevant activities:
Advisory on relevant considerations for the development of a
National Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change.

Project Manager for the development of a website with Vehicles
Energy Efficiency and Emissions (CO2) information of the
Mexican automobile market.
Project Manager for the First Mexico National Emissions
Inventory (criteria pollutants).
Project Manager for the design and implementation of the
National Database System for Emissions Inventories.
Advisor for the President of INE for his work as Chair of the
Executive Council of the Inter-American Institute of Global
Change Research (IAI).
Active member of the Mexican Delegation following the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
and other international forums on climate change.
Other activities considering the energy and transport sectors and
their relation with climate change and air quality.
Lecturer on Ecology and Sustainable Development at the
Monterrey Technological Institute (ITESM), Mexico City,
August-December 2005.
Under-Director for Border Environmental Issues (MEX-US)
in the Foreign Affaires Coordinating Unit of the Mexican
Environmental Ministry. 2001
Advisor for the Committee of Environment and Natural
Resources of the Federal Deputy Chamber. 2000-2001.
Internship in the North American Commission for
Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Montreal, Canadá.1997.
Conferences and Seminars: Mexican Delegate for the meetings of the UNFCCC: COP 6
(The Hage, 2000); COP 10 (Buenos Aires, 2004); SB 22 (Bonn,
2005); and COP 11 (Montreal, 2005); COP 12 (Nairobi, 2006).
Mexican Delegate for the meetings of the IAI: 20 th and 21 st
meetings of the Executive Council; 12 th meeting of the
Conference of the Parties; 22 nd meeting of the Scientific
Advisory Committee.
Environmentally Friendly Vehicles Conference, hosted by the
Department of Transport as part of the UK Presidency of the G8
and the European Union, Birmingham, UK, November 2005.
International Dialogue on Reducing Motor Vehicle Fuel Use
and GHG Emissions, Center for Clean Air Policy, Birmingham,
UK, November 2005.
Seminar on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the
Protocol of Kyoto, Synergy Project, December 2003.
Seminar on Climate Change, Senate. June 2001.

LANGUAGES: Spanish: First language
English: 100%
German: 95%
French: 65%
Seminar on Environment and the Tax Reform, Committee for
Environment and Natural Resources of the Deputy Chamber and
the Senate in coordination with UNAM. April 2001.
Seminar on Environmental Law, Deputy Chamber. January
2001.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: Associated to the Mexican Council on International Affairs
(COMEXI). 2004.