Having trained as an environmental economist and policy analyst, Chilean-born Dr. Mundaca is now a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on energy and climate
policy design and instrument choice, which aims to effectively inform and support policy-related decision-making processes. In 2008 hisresearch on energy efficiency policy evaluation, which built on his YSSP research, won the Nordic Award Competition in Social
Science, conferred by the Energy Forum and the Nordic Energy Research Council.
Dr. Mundaca has worked as an international energy–economy–environment consultant for numerous companies, international development agencies, and state ministries of economy and environment across the Americas and in Europe.