OUR
BOARD
Clean Air Institute's Board of Directors is compromised by a group of highly prominent individuals, each of them with life achievements on clean air and climate change.
Alan Lloyd
Dr. Lloyd obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemical Science and a Doctorate in Gas Kinetics from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. Dr. Lloyd is the President of the International Council of Clean Transport. He was recently Secretary in the Environmental Protection Agency of California. Dr. Lloyd was previously President of the California Air Resources Board, a branch of the Environmental Protection Agency in California, and was appointed by the governor, Gray Davis, in February 1999 and re-elected by Arnold Schwarzenegger in August 2004. Dr. Lloyd was the Executive Director of the Center of Energy and Environmental Engineering from the Desert Research Institute in the University and the Community College in the Nevada System. Moreover, he was from 1988 to 1996, the Scientific Chief of Air Quality in the South Coast District, where he directed the Technology Advancement Office which financed the private-public associations to foster advanced technologies and cleaner fuels. In 2003 Dr. Lloyd was the President of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and he is the co-founcer of the California stationary fuel collaboration Cell. He is also an ex-president of the Energy Department of United States of America, Hydrogen Advisorty Group (HTAP).
Dayana Agudelo-Castañeda
Dr. Dayana Agudelo holds a degree in Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, a Master’s in Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, and a PhD in Remote Sensing from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is currently a member of the Global Air Pollution and Health Technical Advisory Group (GAPTAG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and a key member of the AirQ+ Latin America Expert Group of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).
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Dr. Agudelo is also a member of the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP), the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the Association for Aerosol Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean (ALACEA), and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). She has held academic and research positions in leading Colombian and Brazilian universities, where she has contributed to advancing environmental engineering, climate mitigation, air quality, and environmental justice research. Her work has been published in high-impact international journals.
Pablo Cicero-Fernández
Dr. Pablo Cicero-Fernández holds a Doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA, where he also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health, teaching and researching air quality, air pollution controls, and exposure assessment. He was a key member of the Haagen-Smit Laboratory at the California Air Resources Board (CARB), specializing in mobile source emissions control. As a project engineer, he played a crucial role in the test plan that led to the discovery of Dieselgate, the Volkswagen emissions compliance issue. Since 1992, he has held various positions at CARB, where he served as a Staff Air Pollution Specialist, focusing on emissions compliance, modeling, inventories, and exposure assessment.
Dr. Cicero-Fernández has collaborated with various international organizations focused on air quality and health management. His contributions have been recognized by institutions such as the Mexican Society of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, the University of California, CARB, and Professional Engineers in California Government. Currently, he serves in an advisory capacity continuing his work to advance air quality policies and strategies.