Doctor José Luis Lezama (born June 4, 1952) is a Mexican researcher in the fields of environmental sciences, urbanism, and demography.

Dr. Lezama was the Director of the Centre for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) of El Colegio de México (2003–2009) and Director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Environmental Studies at El Colegio de México.

He was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Air, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, coordinating the Chapter on Environmental Policy and Institutional Analysis in the Mexico City Air Quality Project under the coordination of the Nobel prize Dr. Mario Molina.

He was Visiting Researcher in the Faculty of Architecture at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Visiting Researcher at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Population Dynamics, The Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris), The National Institute of Demography (INED) France and the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Dr. Lezama was a columnist in the Mexican national newspaper Reforma (1996–2014) writing on environmental, technological and social issues.