Mauricio Esteban Rodas Espinel (born 15 April 1975) is an Ecuadorian lawyer, social policy consultant, and politician who served as the Metropolitan Mayor of Quito between May 2014 and May 2019.

Thanks to a Fulbright fellowship and a scholarship from the Organization of American States (OAS), he earned two master's degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, in Government Administration and Political Science.

Dr. Rodas has worked as analyst for various international media enterprises, including: CNN,[3] Televisa, TV Azteca, Foreign Policy, BBC World, Reforma, Revista Poder, among others.

Since 2019, after finishing his mayoral term, Rodas has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he lectures on cities climate infrastructure financing.

Rodas is the co-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Commission on BiodiverCities, and a member of the United Nations' Committee of Experts on Public Administration.

Rodas is the Executive Secretary of this Commission, which is exploring and promoting reforms to the global financial architecture to increase cities' access to climate finance.

Rodas was the hosting mayor [4] of the United Nations Conference on Urban Sustainable Development Habitat III, receiving almost 30,000 international delegates.

With a low budget, this program has delivered more than one million free messages to individuals in three years [12] During his term, Mayor Rodas has worked deeply on the conservation of the city's heritage, especially in the Historic District, where nearly 2 kilometers of streets were transformed into pedestrian lanes.

On the climate change arena, he has fostered avant-garde regulations regarding the reduction of single use plastics, the preservation of natural protected areas, and incentives to promote the use of electric vehicles.

In 2017, during the One Planet Summit organized by President Emmanuelle Macron and UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez, Mayor Rodas launched a global Call to Action to redesign the international financing architecture and channel resources into cities for an effective climate change fight.