The Honourable Rosa Galvez (born June 21, 1961, Peru)[1] is a Canadian Senator representing Québec (Bedford) and an expert in pollution and its effects on human health.

[6][5] Her research on the devastating Lac-Mégantic rail disaster and fire of 2013, which contaminated air, water and soil, has been internationally recognized.

[9] As chair of Canada's Senate Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee, and through the production of science and policy white papers, Galvez has demonstrated the impact of evidence- and fact-based information on policy-making.

[14] She is the oldest daughter of Elias Rogelio Galvez Rodriguez (a mathematician and professor at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru) and Juana Rosa Tantalean Angeles (accountant and teacher).

She worked with the Pan-American Center for Sanitary Engineering (Centro Panamericano de Ingenieria Sanitaria, CEPIS, of the World Health Organization, WHO), before moving to Canada in March 1986.

[1] As chair of the Senate Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee,[21] she has shown how evidence- and fact-based communication from engineers can transform policy-making.

[13][9][2] Major contributions include advising the Commission for Environmental Cooperation on international agreements between Canada and the United States and Quebec and Vermont to protect the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River.

Her research on this catastrophic event, its remediation, and the preparedness of cities to deal with unconventional oil emergencies has been internationally recognized.

She has discussed cumulative impacts of the Site C Dam, a hydroelectric project on the Mackenzie River watershed proposed by British Columbia.