Boris Gregorio GRAIZBORD

Biography

Boris GRAIZBORD is national program director for LEAD Mexico. Before joining LEAD, he served twice as academic coordinator for the master's program in urban development at El Colegio de Mexico. Since 1979, he has been a research professor at the Center of Demographic Studies and Urban Development in El Colegio de Mexico and, since 1977, lecturer in the post-graduate division in the faculty of architecture at Mexico's National University (UNAM). He teaches also full and short courses at other academic institutions, including some in the US as the University of Southern California, Pennsylvania, and the New School.

He also has served as researcher at the Institute of Geography at UNAM (1977-1979), and director for the Center of Social Development Studies, and coordinator for the master's program in municipal development at El Colegio Mexiquense (1986-1988). Under the auspices of various organizations including the IDRC, he conducted research on population and environment, industrial pollution and medium-sized cities, metropolitan transport and regional development in Mexico. He has written more than 50 chapters and articles that have appeared in books and in national and international periodicals, magazines and newspapers, and has co-authored four books.

He has a bachelor's degree in architecture from UNAM and a master's degree in urban geography from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. He pursued doctoral studies in social geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

This biography was last updated on June 9, 2004