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Alberto Ayala
Adjunct Professor

Alberto Ayala was appointed as Deputy Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board at the end of 2012. In this capacity, Ayala is responsible for the Board’s ambient monitoring and laboratories and mobile source control and operations programs. Ayala became a member of CARB’s research staff in 2000 and has since held various management assignments in programs such as Carl Moyer Incentives, AB 32 early actions, mobile refrigerant rules, diesel retrofits, and car, truck and bus emissions research. Most recently he served as chief of the Monitoring and Laboratory Division.

Ayala oversees the full range of policy, regulatory and research efforts of more than 400 professionals focused on achieving CARB’s goals for clean, zero-emission and low-carbon transportation; state-of-the-art monitoring for air and climate pollution; and a widely recognized motor vehicle emissions and fuels testing program. He contributed to the first car GHG emissions regulation in 2004 and is now directing one of CARB’s most important efforts, the advanced clean cars program.

He has presented numerous technical briefings, seminars and lectures as a visiting professor nationally and internationally. Ayala is a frequent expert advisor on clean transportation and mobile source emissions.