Rohemir Ramírez

Climate Policy Officer, Office of Global Change, U.S. State Department

Rohemir Ramirez Ballagas is a Climate Policy Officer for the Office of Global Change at the U.S. State Department. Prior to joining the U.S. State Department, Mr. Ramirez was a Staff Attorney for CLF Massachusetts working in the Clean Energy & Climate Change and Clean Air and Water Programs. Mr. Ramirez was also a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals and an Honors Attorney Fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1.

Mr. Ramirez holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he served as a student clinician at the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and as line editor of the Environmental Law Review. Mr. Ramirez received his J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Puerto Rico Law Review and a student clinician at the University of Puerto Rico Environmental Law Clinic. He has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.