Juan Pablo Orjuela Mendoza

Juan Pablo (or JP) serves as Senior Manager, Zero Emission Areas and is responsible for supporting cities in progressing their clean air zones, low-emission zones, and congestion pricing policies. He also assists signatory cities of the Green and Healthy Street Accelerator in implementing a ZEA by 2030.

Before joining C40, JP was senior research associate and executive education programme director at the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) of the University of Oxford, where his research focused on trans-disciplinary methods to reduce urban injustices with a focus on mobility, air pollution, climate change, and health. He has served as an independent consultant for cities across Latin America on various sustainable transport policies and worked for the Clean Air Institute in Washington, DC, leading the emissions reduction modelling for the Sustainable Transport and Air Quality project.

JP holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and a Master’s in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, as well as a Master of Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.