Our Progress and Plans

Join us at 10:00 am April 9 to learn more about our teams’ progress and plans.

Invited Talk: My COP26 Experience & Significant Take Aways

Mark Haydon, Director, CPO and State Purchasing Agent, joins us to review:

1. My COP26 experience
2. World accomplishments at COP26
3. What NM is actively doing to combat the climate crisis
4. What States are collectively doing nationally

Bio

Mr. Hayden was appointed Director of the New Mexico State Purchasing Division in January 2019.  Mark is an attorney with 33 years’ experience in both government and private practice.  He was previously the Legal Services Bureau Chief at New Mexico State Purchasing; former Associate General Counsel at the New Mexico Human Services Department; and worked 20 years as Counsel for a fortune 500 insurance following several years in private litigation firms in Chicago.

Mark Graduated from University of Wisconsin Madison Law School after receiving his Political Science Degree from Northern Illinois University.  Mark also studied engineering at General Motors Institute while working at the Electro-Motive Division of GM to manufacture locomotives.  Mark currently is a member of the NM Council for Purchasing from Persons with Disabilities, the Coalition for Sustainable Communities, and the Citizens Advisory for the oversight of legacy hazardous waste clean-up at Los Alamos.  He attended the World Climate Change Conference last fall in Glasgow.

An avid sailor on the Great Lakes for 25 years, Mark found water rather scarce in the high desert; so now he hikes, bikes, skis, rafts, and travels extensively throughout the West. He explored all corners of New Mexico, all state parks from Arizona to Canada, and completed his first Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim hike in the in the Spring of 2018.  Mark participates in his neighborhood book club and is an active member of several local nature groups.