Alejandro Juarez Aguilar

Mexico

Managing Director, Institute Corazon de la Tierra (Heart of the Earth), Guadalajara

He has been working as Executive Director of the Corazon de la Tierra Institute (CTI), Mexico, since 2002. His fields of expertise are Integrated Watershed Management, Community Development, Communication and Environmental Education. He is member of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC) Scientific Committee since 2019; Leader of the Lakes and their Basins Working Group, in the Mexican Watershed Management Network (Remexcu); and member of the Technical Committee for Management and Conservation of Jalisco State’s Wetlands (Mexico).

As researcher and manager he participated in several international projects: Integrated Lake Basin Management-Governance Project (2008-2011, coordinated by ILEC) as responsible for the Mexican case; the Transboundary Water Assessment Program (2011-2014, involving UNEP, Global Environment Facility, UNESCO and ILEC) as contributing author and organizer of the Mexico and Central America Workshop; Construction of artificial wetlands for wastewater treatment (2016-2018, involving the Federal Ministry for International Cooperation Development -BMZ-Germany- the Global Nature Fund and CTI), as coordinator; the ILBM Lake Briefs from Latin America Project (2019-2021, involving Remexcu, ILEC and CTI), involving 23 institutions from 5 countries, as coordinator; and the IKI-Living Lakes Biodiversity and Climate Project (2022-2027, BMUV-Germany and the Global Nature Fund) as coordinator of the Lake Chapala section.

He has coordinated almost 100 projects in the areas of social research, forest management, community involvement, agroecology and environmental education. He developed a methodology to assess basin governance, so far applied in Mexico, USA and Chile. He has been a guest speaker with institutions from Japan, USA, the Philippines, India, Argentina, Guatemala, Spain and Germany.

Contact

Office: (52) 33-38251361 and (52) 89951200

Fax:    (52) 33-38251361

E-mail: corazondelatierra@gmail.com

Office Address:  Paseo de los Filósofos #1175-209, Colinas de la Normal, Guadalajara, Mexico. CP 44270