Professor Sazcha Marcelo Olivera Villarroel holds a Ph.D. in Economics with a specialization in natural resource economics from the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2004-2007). He holds a Master's degree in Economics with a major in Public Policy from the School of Economics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2001-2003). He received his B.A. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba, Bolivia.

He is currently Professor of the Department of Theory and Processes of Design of the Division of Communication Sciences and Design at the Cuajimalpa Campus of the UAM. His research interests include Resources and Environmental Economics, Theories of Human Behavior, Climate Change, and Value Theory. He is a member of LACEEP, of the National System of Researchers, Level I (Mexico), and works as an independent consultant for the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), among others. He was a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and at the University of Maryland - UMCES-CBL. He is an editor of the collection Social Impacts of Climate Change published between UAM-World Bank and Instituto Mora.