| Omar Romero-Hernandez | |
| Birth Place: | Mexico |
| Education: | Imperial College London |
| Known For: | Franz Edelman Award winner |
Dr. Omar Romero-Hernandez is a Mexican academic, engineer, and researcher who currently serves as a professor at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business and at the Hult International Business School. He was the recipient of the 2010 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[1]
Romero-Hernandez holds a bachelor's in chemical engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a doctorate in economics and environmental engineering from Imperial College, London. He was a Fulbright fellow.[2]
Romero-Hernandez has led several awarded energy-related projects in the field of sustainable business strategies, renewable energy and business processes through work with the United Nations, the Mexican Secretariat of the Environment, and PEMEX, among others. In 2010, he was appointed project leader of Mexico’s Business Summit task force on Economic Growth and Low Carbon Emissions, which delivers recommendations to the President.
Romero-Hernandez has been a lecturer (non-tenure track) in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley since 2009.
Romero-Hernandez was appointed project leader of Mexico’s Business Summit Task force on Economic Growth and Low Carbon Emissions in 2010, working directly under the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón.
Since 2013, Romero-Hernandez has been a faculty member at the Hult International Business School.[3]
In 2010, Romero‐Hernandez was the recipient of the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, one of the most prestigious awards in operations and management in the United States.