Bernardo Bastien Olvera is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Climate Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM). He is an Affiliated Scientist at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment in Milan, Italy, a National Geographic Explorer, a Beijer Young Scholar, and Cofounder of Estudios Planeteando. He serves on the Council of the American Geophysical Union and is a Scholar of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

He started his position at UNAM after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. He completed his PhD in Geography at the University of California, Davis, where he was a Fulbright Program Student and a Fellow of the John Muir Institute of the Environment, obtaining the Kinsella Memorial Prize for his PhD dissertation.

His research focuses on the interaction between ecosystems, economies, and climate to understand how climate change affects the unique and diverse ways people value nature.