Manuel Gerardo Pedro Pulgar-Vidal Otálora (born 1962) is a Peruvian lawyer specializing in environmental law.

[citation needed] He was also a member of the Peruvian Environmental Law Society (SPDA),[3][2] of which he was the executive director from 1994 to 2011.

[2][citation needed] On December 11, 2011, upon the restructuring of President Ollanta Humala's first cabinet, he was sworn in as Minister of the Environment, replacing the resigning Ricardo Giesecke.

[8] After his tenure as minister, Pulgar-Vidal continued his commitment to environmental governance by chairing the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) newly formed Climate Crisis Commission.

This role involves coordinating international efforts to address climate change impacts, demonstrating his ongoing influence in global environmental policy.