Marcela Adriana Nájera Betancourt

About
Marcela Adriana Nájera Betancourt has focused her professional practice on the environmental sector. With more than 13 years of experience in environmental regulation, inspection and surveillance, specializing in the industrial sector.

Practice Focus

• • Environmental law.
  • Strategic planning in environmental normative regulation.
  • Legal advice.
  • Environmental training.
  • Environmental Audit.
  • Environmental inspection.
  • Environmental management.

Education
She obtained her law degree from Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, with Master’s Degree on Environmental Politics, Magement and Law in Universidad Anahuac Xalapa. Among other courses on environmental matters.

Experience
As part of his previous experiences, Mrs. Nájera served as environmental inspector in the Environmental Audit Subdelegation in PROFEPA Veracruz. Subsequently, she developed as an environmental advisor in solid and hazardous waste management,in a leading company in the field at the national level.

From 2016 to 2021, served as Head of the Prevention and Control of Pollution Department of the Ecology Direction of the Ministry of Urban Development and Ecology of the State of Chihuahua, developing updates on matter of the Permanent Inspection and Surveillance Program of the State, the Law of Waste Prevention and Management of the State of Chihuahua, as well as the Rules of the Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Protection of Environment of the State of Chihuahua.

– Project management of the first environmental technical standard, regarding the extraction of minerals not reserved for the Federation.

– Coordination of the first environmental geostatistical layer of the state of Chihuahua.

She has carried out legal and technical environmental consulting activities, in industrial and commercial sectors.

She elaborated for the initiative of Chihuahua Green City- COPARMEX the study “Environmental taxes, a proposal in the execution of environmental policy of the state of Chihuahua: an environmental, socioeconomic and legal analysis”

In addition, she´s professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Chihuahua, and in the Corporate Law Master’s Degree program of the Universidad La Salle, teaching topics such as environmental law, climate change and sustainability, regulation in the operation of bussines.

Languages
Spanish and English.