Dr. Carlos Muñoz Piña
Collaborator
Economic-environmental research, in particular the design of economic instruments
Carlos Muñoz Piña has nearly 20 years of experience working on environmental, resource,
and energy issues, mostly centered on economic research and policy design.
He studied economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City,
and has graduate studies in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University College
London and the University of California at Berkeley His career has crossed both government
and private policy research institutions. Among them, Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Ecología
y Cambio Climático (INECC) in the Ministry of the Environment -where his team designed the
Payment for Environmental Services program, and the Centro Mario Molina for Sustainability
-working on the design of Mexico’s carbon tax and Clean Energy Certificate, plus the economics
departments of the Universidad Iberoamericana and ITAM. Over the years Dr. Muñoz has served
as advisor and board member for development banks, NGOs and international organizations,
especially in energy and sustainability issues. From 2014 to 2018, Dr. Muñoz Piña was
Director General for Revenue Policy at the Undersecretariat for Revenues in Mexico’s
Ministry of Finance, working, among other things, on taxation and pricing issues related
to Mexico’s Energy Reform. In 2019 he was appointed as Director for Research and
Data Integrity at the World Resources Institute.