Rosa Galvez

The Honourable Rosa Galvez (born June 21, 1961, Peru) is a Canadian Senator representing Québec (Bedford) and an expert in pollution and its effects on human health. She was appointed to the Senate on December 6, 2016.

While a professor at Laval University and head of the university's Department of Civil Engineering and Water Engineering Galvez established its environmental research laboratory. For her work on the restoration of Lac Saint-Augustin, Société Radio-Canada nicknamed her “La Dame du Lac”. Her research on the devastating Lac-Mégantic rail disaster and fire of 2013, which contaminated air, water and soil, has been internationally recognized. She is a member of Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and a Fellow of Engineers Canada.

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. Galvez has proposed Bill S-243, the Climate-Aligned Finance Act, in hopes of creating dialogue about the finance sector's role in addressing climate change.

Galvez is President of the ParlAmericas Parliamentary Network on Climate Change and Sustainability (PNCCS). She has been an official participant at COP25, COP26 and COP27.