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Rodrigo Lozano Dr Rodrigo Lozano

Lecturer: Corporate Sustainability and Programme Leader: BA Environment and Business

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 34956
Email address: R.Lozano@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.110

Biography

Rodrigo has been working with Sustainability since 1999. He has expertise on change management for Sustainability, leadership for Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Development in Higher Education, Sustainability assessment and reporting, collaboration for SD, workshop facilitation, educating educators, and network map analysis.

Rodrigo is the author of the Sustainability Tool for Auditing UNiversity Curricula in Higher-Education (STAUNCH(c)), the GRaphical Assessment of Sustainability Performance (GRASP(c)) tool, and the Graphical Assessment for Sustainability in Universities (GASU(c)) tool.

Some of Rodrigo's past projects include: assessing the curricula contribution of Cardiff University to sustainability; developing the content of Cardiff University sustainability webpage; facilitation for the BRASS centre, Cardiff University; staff and students training (at the BRASS Centre, Cardiff University); air conditioning systems, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality; e-learning and knowledge management transfer; mass transfer and energy efficiency in a lead smelting company; maintenance supervisor in a sugar cane mill; and simulation of an oil refinery.

Rodrigo is Subject Editor of Education and Organisational Change Management for Sustainability for the Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact factor for 2010 is: 2.45). He is also part of the editorial board of Sustainable Development.

He has international experience presenting for diverse audiences in France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK, and the U.S.A. He has worked and studied in Austria, El Salvador, Hungary, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, and the UK.

Qualifications

Rodrigo holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering (summa cum laude), a MSc in Environmental Management and Policy, a Diploma on Social Research Methods, and a PhD on organizational change management for Corporate Sustainability

Memberships/Fellowships

  • Associate Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • Member of the Education for Sustainable Development advisory group for the Higher Education Academy

  • Member of the advisory board for the CSR competence centre in University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

  • Member of the advisory board for the Doctoral School for Sustainable Development, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Research Interests

Rodrigo is interested in organisational sustainability (including corporate sustainability and sustainability in higher education), sustainability assessment and reporting, change management for sustainability, game theory, stakeholder engagement, and complex system analysis and management.

Publications