Mauricio Rodas served as Mayor of Quito, Ecuador (2014–2019), where he successfully led the construction of the country’s first Metro line and implemented numerous initiatives to promote urban sustainability, social equity, and economic development. He hosted the UN Habitat III Conference and held leadership positions in global city networks, including World Co-President of UCLG and Vice-Chair of C40 Cities. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center, and a member of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration. He also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Commission on Nature-Positive Cities and the Executive Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. He is Executive Secretary of the SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance, co-chaired by Professor Jeffrey Sachs and the Mayors of Paris and Rio de Janeiro. As the founder and CEO of Meridio Consulting, an urban policy and climate finance consultancy, he has worked with cities such as Athens, Cape Town, Freetown, Dhaka, Melbourne, Miami, Monterrey, Paris, Riyadh, Santiago de Chile, and Seville. He is a member of the Advisory Network of Urban Partners and has served as a jury member for awards such as the C40–Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards and Prince William’s Earthshot Prize. Recognized as one of the “100 World’s Most Influential People on Climate Action” by Apolitical, he received the University of Pennsylvania’s World Urban Leadership Award and ICLEI’s Climate Action and Sustainability Leadership Award. He is also a former WEF Young Global Leader and a Bloomberg Harvard Mayors Fellow. He holds a JD from Universidad Católica de Quito and master’s degrees in Government Administration and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (Fulbright Scholar).