Rosa Galvez
Profile
Rosa Galvez is a Canadian Senator representing the province of Quebec, appointed to the Senate in 2016. An expert in pollution and environmental engineering, she previously served as a professor and head of the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Laval University. Throughout her career, she has focused on the remediation of contaminated sites, including her internationally recognized research on the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. As a legislator, Galvez has chaired the Senate Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee and has been a prominent advocate for evidence-based climate policy, sponsoring the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act and proposing the Climate-Aligned Finance Act to address the financial sector's role in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Details
- Born
- June 21, 1961 · 64 years old
- Birth place
- Peru
- Education
- National University of Engineering (Bachelor of Civil Engineering); McGill University (M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering Technology, Ph.D. in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering)
- Career
- Professor and Department Head at Laval University, environmental researcher, engineer at the Ministry of Housing in Peru, and consultant for the World Health Organization.
