Alberto Ayala

Dr. Alberto Ayala has 30 years of experience in industry, government, and academia. He is Executive Director of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District in California’s capital region and Adjunct Professor in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University. Previously, he was Deputy Executive Officer at the California Air Resources Board and Design Engineer with Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical.

Trained as a mechanical engineer with BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of California, Davis, he is a recognized expert on air quality science and policy who has authored 170 peer-reviewed publications and reports. He consults and lectures extensively in Latin America, serves on various boards of directors, and is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum. His engineering internships were with General Electric’s Corporate Research Center in New York, the California Energy Commission, and the NASA Ames Research Center. He is a contributor to the book “Ambient Combustion Ultrafine Particles and Health” and author of the upcoming book “3 Forks in the Road. Dieselgate: the Volkswagen cheating scandal.”