LEAD Mexico

Read highlights of LEAD Mexico 2006 activities

El Colegio de Mexico, a free, non-profit, higher education, university type organisation, created on October 8, 1940 is the National Host Institution for LEAD-Mexico that was established as one of the first Member Programmes in 1991.

We have a national network of 172 LEAD Fellows and Associates and many other partners who have been though a LEAD-like training.

Fellows and Associates work for federal, state and city governments; they lead national and international NGO; they belong to or own private sector enterprises; and take part in academic institutions, teaching and doing research. Our Fellows and Associates are well positioned in the public and private sectors and in professional organisations as well as in Academic Institutions and in both national and international NGO operating in Mexico. Their influence at the national, regional and local levels is felt and their opinion sought after. Of the total, 34% work in government positions (including a State Minister, a State Deputy Minister, and the Mexican representative for SEMARNAT at the OECD in Paris); 28% in Academia; 22% as independent professionals and in private enterprises; and 16% for non-government organizations (including Conservation International, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, etc.).

Claudio Alatorre has been collaborating with the Energy Ministry of Mexico in the design of policy instruments for the promotion of renewable energy and as manager of the WB/GEF Large Scale Renewable Energy Development Project. As researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National University (UNAM), he is participating in several projects, especially in connection with sustainable biomass use, and sustainable transport.

Beatríz Bugeda Bernal earned her law degree at Harvard University in the United States. She is the Head of the Liaison Office of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Prior to her current position, she served in the Foreign Relation Ministry of the Mexican Government as an environmental legal advisor.

Dora Patricia Andrade Salaverria is the general manager of AN Consultores, S.A. de C.V., a private consulting firm dedicated to addressing environmental problems. She has served as a professor at National University. She also held the position of Director of Environmental Education at the Urban Development and Ecology Ministry, and positions relating to environmental impact assessment, ecological planning and environmental planning.

Alfredo Arellano-Guillermo is Regional Director of protected areas in the Yucatán Península, Mexico. Additionally since 1994 he is also responsible for the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, World Heritage Site. He has also conducted research and served as Natural Resources Management Coordinator for Monarca A.C.

Benet Keil is a consultant in rural development. Until recently, he was Executive Director of Greenpeace in Mexico. For eight years, he taught botany, ecology, evolutionary biology, science and society, and current polemics in evolutionary biology at the National University. He has been a management and conservation consultant for municipalities, common land, and ejido authorities in Morelos, Oaxaca, Jalisco and Guerrero states.

LEAD Mexico Partners

LEAD Mexico’s programme joins and shares El Colegio de Mexico’s academic activities in the following fields: public administration, international affairs, economics, demographic and population studies, urban development, Asian and African studies, history, sociology and linguistics and Hispanic literature, organised in relatively independent centers, which include various programmes and seminars.

Recently, LEAD Mexico was asked to evaluate the Natural Disasters National Fund Program (FONDEN), as well as elaborate a diagnosis on the Mexico-US Border infrastructure for Solid Waste Management.

We organised a workshop on “Leadership, Communication and Cooperation in Team Work” for the Ford Foundation, programm members of indigenous groups recipients of IIE post graduate studies scholarships.

A seminar on “Measurement Strategies for Natural Resources Conservation in Collective Property” was held in collaboration with the National Institute of Ecology (INE) and the National Commission for Natural Protected Areas (CONANP). The seminar was attended by 95 people and the programme included a module on “Negotiation and conflict resolution”.

Other LEAD Mexico partners include

• PEMEX (the national oil company)
• National Water Commission
• Milano School (New School University)
• Ford Foundation
• National University (UNAM)
• University of Guadalajara
• Federal Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT)
• Mexico City Government
• Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN)
• Programa de Estudios del Cambio Económico y la Sustentabilidad del Agro Mexicano
• Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies
• Center for Economic Studies (CEE