Staff
Blas Pérez Henríquez
Blas Pérez Henríquez is the founding Director of Executive and International Programs (EIP) at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, where he oversees executive education and capacity building programs for mid-career government officials and public policy professionals domestically and abroad. He serves as an ex-officio member of the Goldman School advisory board. He has served as Quarterly Chair of the Commonwealth Club of California, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. His research focuses on the intersection of policy, markets and the use of information technologies to improve policymaking. He holds a M.P.P and Ph.D. in Public Policy from UC Berkeley.
Under the leadership of Blas Pérez Henríquez, EIP offers executive education programs for national, state, and local government officials, policy professionals and non-governmental organization leaders; it designs international capacity building programs for governments and community leaders abroad; it invites and hosts international visiting scholars and government officials; and organizes events and seminars that bring prominent national and international speakers on a wide range of policy issues to the UC Berkeley campus.
Blas Pérez Henríquez also directs the Goldman School’s Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP). He is particularly interested in creating innovative and cost-effective policies to address global environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity decline. He is focused on bringing such policies to the developing world. He participates regularly as an academic observer at the Annex I Expert Group of the United National Climate Change Convention, a support group at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that develops policy alternatives to address global warming.
