Valeria Procupez
PhD-Lecturer Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
United States of América

Valeria Procupez is an Argentine Anthropologist. She is a Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in USA, and a member of the Social Studies Team of MOI (Movimiento de Ocupantes e Inquilinos - Movement of Squatters and Tenants, of Argentina).

She has conducted extensive research with MOI and other housing organizations and published articles and book chapters on their experiences with inequality and affordable housing, collective ownership schemes and the production of the urban commons. She is presently finalizing a research project in collaboration with the Program for Urban Sociology at University of Buenos Aires, about the effects of a grassroots-promoted self-managed housing program in Buenos Aires.

E-mail: vprocupez@gmail.com

Maria Helena Jose Correia Langa
Mayor of Mandlakazi, Mozambique


In 1997 she created the Mozambican Association for the Development of Women's Head of the Family, MUCHEFA, She has been president of MUCHEFA since 1997.

Through the MUCHEFA and other association’s rights of women went on to lead several processes rights of women and demonstration of the capabilities that a woman has in the development of society and was involved in several campaigns to combat violence

In 2003 she was Candidate for OJM (Mozambican Youth Organization) to compete internally for the Mayor position. Her candidature was withdrawn under the pretext of being a child even if really was a woman. Only a man could be considered to become mayor.

She was elected President of the Municipal Assembly Mandlakazi in 2004, and on February 9, 2009 assumed the position of Chairman of the Municipal Council of the Village of Mandlakazi, Mayor of Mandlakazi

On 17 March 2007, she was elected Vice-President of the National Network of Women Mayors of Mozambique representing South Zone
On 11 March 2011 she was elected Vice President of the African Network of Women Mayors
She was Re-elected in 2013 for a second term and in 2018 for a third term as mayor of Mandlakazi.

Dominique Ollivier
Dominique Ollivier is the president of the Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal
Montréal, Canada

She has more than 25 years of experience in management and communication and she has worked for different social organisms. Throughout her career, she has also volunteered in many community organizations. Mrs. Ollivier is the author of several texts and briefs about cultural diversity, citizen participation and adult education.

Madison Rock
Program Coordinator, Civic Health Initiatives, Center for the Future of Arizona


Madison is a native Arizonan and self-described cheerleader for democracy. She is passionate about guiding young people through the process of self-empowerment, innovative problem solving, and developing strong, resilient communities. As the Civic Health Program Coordinator, she supports CFA’s youth civic initiatives.

Madison has been deeply engaged with the Phoenix Union PB model since its early adoption and has supported its scale to engage 35,000 students across Arizona. Madison also leads DemocraSeed, a program in which city and tribal youth councils are trained on design-thinking to create solutions for community-based problems. Madison graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in Public Service and Public Policy. Her area of study focuses on sustainability, creative city development, and participatory budgeting.

Anna Sukhova
Community Development and Social Protection Specialist in the World Bank


During the last 8 years she has worked on promotion of participatory budgeting in Russia and support of regional and municipal governments in design and implementation of Local Initiatives Support Program (LISP). Currently she is coordinating national and regional level activities aimed at developing participatory and community development practices in Russia.

Taylor Spratt
Graduate student in comparative education at Florida International University


She is a graduate student in comparative education at Florida International University, interested in the role of youth participatory budgeting (PB) in advancing participatory democracy in the US.

Originally from Chicago, she first learned about PB while conducting youth participatory action research (YPAR) to amplify student voice at a public, majority-minority urban comprehensive high school in the midwestern U.S. She is currently assisting the launch of the first PB process in Florida at a small, independent high school where she is researching how PB can operate as a “pedagogy of the privileged.” She can be reached in English, Spanish and Portuguese at Taylor.ra.spratt@gmail.com.

Gisela Signorelli
Professor and a researcher at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of the National University of Rosario (CIUNR-UNR)


She is a member of the Advisory Design Committee on Participatory Budget (PB) UNR. Doctor in Political Science and Specialist in Public Management (UNR). Specialist in Political Communication (Complutense University of Madrid). She is also Vice-Head of Government of the Commune of Pueblo Andino, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Web-Site: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisela-signorelli-a91676b

Marta Martorell Camps
Director, Civis Govern Obert


Postgraduate Diploma in Communication and Political Strategy from the Institute of Political and Social Sciences of Barcelona. Degree in Political Science and Administration, specialising in International Relations.

2001-2003 she set up Civis Govern Obert, a consultancy firm as a result of an entrepreneurial project, with the will to grow and develop it in the field of public policies, providing support and collaboration to the agents involved in the development of participatory democracy and the new culture of governance. From seeds, she has been working on many projects with the aim of promoting the opening of the system of representative democracy. She provides consultancy services to the Mayor's Office of his village Tiana.

Distinctions:

• The project for the design and development of the participation process of the Avenida del Apeadero in Sant Cugat del Vallès and Valldoreix, with co-creation dynamics that was chosen by the Observatory of Participatory Democracy to show and exhibit at a conference in Montreal (Canada) in June 2017 and chosen by the Directorate General of Youth of the Generalitat of Catalonia for the creation and trajectory of the consulting firm Civis Gobierno Abierto to form part of the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Meeting that was held in Barcelona from 7 to 11 April 2014.

2006 Democratic Innovation of Catalonia Award, to the project of the Plan of Citizen Participation of Molins de Rei, granted by the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Maëlle Despouys
Geographer-urbanist


She is in charge of the Consultation Unit in the Mayor's Office of the City of Bordeaux, in charge of implementing all participatory democracy initiatives and in particular the participatory budget.

Previously project manager at the Biennale d'urbanisme et d'architecture Agora after having been in charge of digital communication for the City of Bordeaux's urban projects and Head of the Maison du projet des Bassins à flot within the Bordeaux Metropole Planning Department.

Involved in the new democratic challenges of cities and urban planning since 2010 with the drafting of a thesis on citizen participation in urban projects at the Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme of the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

TW: @MaelleDespouys

Alexandra Siarri
Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux in charge in The City of Tomorrow


Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux in charge of The City of Tomorrow, social and territorial cohesion (City policy, social emergency, integration, social economy and solidarity, participatory budget, social housing, social centres and social life spaces, cultural equity, social innovation...)

• Regional Councillor of New Aquitaine
• Political advisor in the office of the President of Bordeaux Métropole
• President of France Médiation
• Vice-President of the National Union of CCAS, and of the Urban Forum for Urban Safety, of the Bordeaux PIMMS
• Member of the High Council for Social Work and the High Council for Family, Childhood and Age
• Author of Bordeaux is Future, Mobilibook Edition
• Co-founder of the BordeauxDemain citizen collective

Laurence Kwark
Secretary General of Global Social Economy Forum GSEF Secretariat


She served as UN representative for Pax Romana ICMICA in Geneva, where she also had served as the Secretary General for five years. Over her 30 year career, she has devoted herself to improve human rights and social development in many developing countries particularly in Asia and the South America region. She has worked for many leading organizations including Terre d’avenir, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Lebret-Irfed Centre and EMPSA.

Studies:

• King Sejong University of Seoul, Korea - Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry
• Laurence holds a Master’s degree in sociology from EHESS (Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

She is a French citizen, fluent in Korean, French, English and Spanish.

Melissa Daniela Martínez Riojas
Degree in Political Science and Public Administration


She collaborated as an Advisor in the Citizen Participation Commission in Legislative Assembly VI. Research assistant in projects of civil society organizations I participate as honorary constituent deputy in the legislative model “Youth is Constituent CDMX 2016” organized by the ALDF and IECM. Electoral assistant in the XXI district headquarters of the IECM in the 2018 electoral process.

She has participated as head of the receiving table in various citizen consultation processes for the participatory budget organized by the IECM. Professor of the subject Political parties and electoral systems in the COLLEGED CENTER FOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE. S.C

E-mail: melissariojas9@gmail.com
TW: @melissariojas

Bernarda Sarué Pereira
ACOBOL (Association of women local government leaders of Bolivia)


Professional Independent
Professional in Socio-Environmental Management and Education.

Responsible for Socio- Environmental Management – Relationship manager
Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy

Consultant
Independent professional

Institutional Strengthening
Ministry of Education

Extensive experience in Administration and Resolution of Socio-Environmental Conflicts.

Extensive experience in social research processes related to local development and the satisfaction of needs.

Cristina Elizabeth Bloj
Researcher and Professor National University of Rosario-Argentina


Graduated in Anthropology (Sociocultural Orientation), Master in International Cooperation for Development and Doctor from the Complutense University of Madrid: Contemporary Latin America Programme (Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Madrid-Spain). Researcher and professor at the National University of Rosario (Argentina).

Professor FLACSO/PRIGEPP; Director and evaluator of research and development projects; Consultant CEPAL and UN WOMEN; and representative for the National University of Rosario at the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy (IOPD). Fields of research: Ethnography, political and social participation, participatory budget, gender, citizenship, identities.

Carolina Toro Morales
Deputy Director INSOC-Mexico


Master in Politics and Public Management. With studies and extensive experience in public policy evaluation, participatory planning and mechanisms for citizen participation. In the public sector, she has served as Director General of Social Programs of the City of Guadalajara; Director General of Social Policy of the Government of the State of Jalisco, where she designed and implemented the participatory budget of the State government, the first sub-national level exercise in Mexico.

She was Undersecretary of Planning and Evaluation of the Government of the State of Jalisco; and is currently Associate Director of INSOC (Initiative for Social Change) S.C; Teacher of the University ITESO and collaborator in opinion sections of local media.

Mtra. Mariana Flores Mayén
Executive Director of Institutional Representation General Coordination of Advisors and International Affairs Government of Mexico City


Degree in International Relations from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and Master in International Relations Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Since 2010 she is Advisor in the General Coordination of International Affairs of the Government of Mexico City.

In June 2012 she joins the team that creates the Regional Office for Latin America of the Global Fund for the Development of Cities (FMDV) as Project Director and from August 2016 as Regional Director.

That year she also assumes the Regional Secretariat for North America of the World Association of Major Metropolises. In addition, she has coordinated and contributed to publications on local government external action and urban development financing.

Almudena Ocejo
Secretariat for Social Inclusion and Welfare


She was Executive Director of CCiudadano. Construction and articulation of the Public, CIESAS, from 2007 to 2016. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

She has a Master's degree in Administration and Public Policy from New York University (NYU) and a Bachelor's degree in Humanities from Universidad de las Américas - Puebla (UDLAP).

She is a professor in the Master in Public Policy at ITAM, in the topics of "Public Management and Citizen Participation" and "Thesis Seminar". In 2011 she was recognized as an Ashoka Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship for her work in promoting citizen participation. Member of the Advisory Team for the Global Alliance for Social Auditing (GPSA) of the World Bank (2015-2017).

She was Linking Director of the Transparency Linking Unit at the Ministry of Public Function (SFP), in charge of the Citizen Monitoring Program. From 1999 to 2003 she resided in Washington DC, where she worked as a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and as Director of Research and Analysis at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP).

Elizabeth Santos
President of the Venezuelan Housing Rights Foundation


Human Rights Activist, President of the Venezuelan Foundation for the Right to Housing, member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Alliance of Inhabitants, founding member of the now extinct Metropolitan Network of Tenants, Co-redactor of Decree Law 8190 Against Arbitrary Eviction of Housing and also Co-reditor of the Law for the Regularization of Control of Housing Leases.

She is a social worker by profession and has a degree in Human Rights Education.

Margarita Cristina Sierra Díaz de Rivera
President of the Venezuelan Housing Rights Foundation


Margarita Cristina Sierra Díaz de Rivera, the Maga Mayor, is from Jalisco by adoption. She studied a degree in Philosophy at the University of Louvain and a Masters in Pedagogy at the Free University of Brussels. For 15 years she was the Director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (1987-2001); in addition, in 2004 she founded the Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales (CAAV) and, in 2006, the civil association Congreso Ciudadano de Jalisco.

She currently collaborates with the Government of the State of Jalisco as the Secretary of Planning and Citizen Participation, promoting governance, the culture of peace and citizen participation in the entity.

Diana Dajer
Director Policéntrico


Diana Dajer is a social entrepreneur working in the intersection between participatory democracy, innovation and peacebuilding. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, and the director and founder of Policéntrico, a start-up that fosters sustainable development and participatory democracy in Colombia. Inclusion in post-conflict societies is Diana’s biggest interest.

Her career is rooted in Colombia and Latin America’s state-building efforts, working in projects involving democratic innovation, human rights and transitional justice. Diana holds a degree in law, a graduate degree in administrative law, and a master’s degree in public policy.

Won No
Assistant Professor Shanghai University of Finance and Economics


Dr. Won No is an Assistant Professor of Public Management in the School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Her research interests include participatory budgeting, participatory governance, public management, and voluntary actions. Dr. No’s research centers on how the increase of public participation affects government decision-making process.

Her projects examine the emergence and efficacy of participatory approaches in government processes, performance, and policy outcomes. Dr. No received a PhD in Public Administration and Policy at Arizona State University, a Master of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and an MPA and a BA in Public Administration at SungKyunKwan University, Seoul, South Korea.

Clara bois
Program Manager Global PB Hub


Clara manages the Global PB Hub’s efforts to coordinate PB research and resource development. She has experience managing housing policy and participatory planning, and has worked on several projects of tenure regularization and slum upgrading in Brazil.

Clara holds a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research work has focused on how housing movement activists use local participatory arenas to fight for housing justice in Brazil.

Mariana Gonzalez Ruiz Velasco
Research & Design Fellow Global PB Hub


Mariana is a Design Researcher and Strategist who uses design to empower underserved communities. In her practice, she integrates participatory methods to include unheard voices in the design process. She has worked in projects where she collaborated with Guatemalan artisans, Hispanic immigrants in the US, and members of low-income neighborhoods in Mexico.

Mariana holds a degree in Innovation and Design Engineering from Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, and an M.F.A. In Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design in New York. She is highly interested in using design as a tool to achieve equity, social justice, and democracy.

Ana Lucía Montoya Castro
Undersecretary for Local Planning and Budget Participation Medellín Mayor's Office


Undersecretary of Local Planning and Participative Budget of the Secretariat of Citizen Participation of the Mayor's Office of Medellín.

Lawyer, specialist in Public Law and Business Law, with 10 years of experience in the public sector. Among her main achievements is the coordination of the methodology in the implementation of local planning processes and participatory budgeting, articulating local participatory processes, for the formulation and management of citizen initiative projects, as well as the implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation Subsystem encouraging social control to the public and public accountability.

She has led the implementation of symbolic incentives to promote citizen participation as part of the construction of social fabric, such as the Participation Week and the Municipal Award for the Most Relevant Experiences of Citizen Participation.

She has led the implementation of the piloting of the Municipal System of Citizen Participation as an instrument of articulation and the diagnostic stage in the formulation of the Public Policy of Citizen Participation, with the development of cross-cutting elements such as the Information and Knowledge Management System for Participation and the Public Communication Strategy for Social Mobilization and Participation.

Dalia Haydeé Pérez Medina
Collaborator Arkemetria Social


Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is currently studying in the Master's Program in Corporate Finance at UNAM. She has collaborated with Arkemetria Social A.C. since 2014, supporting the elaboration and execution of citizen participation projects.

His research lines are public budget, transparency, citizen participation and Right of Access to Information. She currently supports the activities carried out as part of the "Women Vigilantes de lo Público" Program.

Robin Baker
Budget Commitment Coordinator for the Durham City Participatory Budgeting initiative


Robin Baker received her undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University she then attended UNC-Greensboro’s School of Public Affairs, where she received her Masters of Public Administration. Since graduation, Robin has worked to address urban issues and improve community engagement in the Triangle region through the implementation of innovative practices.

Robin Baker is currently the Budget Engagement Coordinator for the City of Durham’s Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiative, where she oversees implementation of the communications and outreach strategy for PB Durham.

Martha Avila
Local deputy
District 28 in Iztapalapa

A woman committed to struggle, democracy and social equity in Mexico.

Since 2008, I have held various positions in the public administration, both at the central government level, in the Procuraduría Social, and at the delegational level, in the government of Iztapalapa and Azcapotzalco. My commitment to democracy and social equity in Mexico has led me to participate in various social organizations and to carry out community work in Iztapalapa.

I am a founder of the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional party, in which I participated as an alternate candidate in the local deputation of district 28 in Iztapalapa, in the historic elections of July 1, 2018. On November 21, 2018, I was sworn in as a local member of Congress of Mexico City. So today I have the opportunity to work for my community and for all those citizens who voted for us and whom we will not let down! From this commission I work to build the new legal framework that will allow the inhabitants of Mexico City to fully enjoy the rights established in the Political Constitution of the country's capital.

Amanda Fléty
Coordinator CGLU


Is the executive coordinator of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights (CSIPDHR) of UCLG since the beginning of 2018. In her current position, she has coordinated the launch of joint local government initiatives such as the Declaration “Cities for Adequate Housing”.

She also contributed to shared work by cities and city networks on the recognition of local governments role in the promotion and protection of human rights in the framework of the United Nations.

Amanda Fléty has a degree in geography from University Paris 8 and a master's degree from the French Institute of Geopolitics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Her previous professional experience has always been linked to local government. She has promoted projects in the field of local development, social and solidarity economy and urban ecology among others in the cabinet of the president of Plaine Commune, as well as the citys of La Courneuve and Paris.

Flavia Freidenberg
Researcher
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Full-Time Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Professor of "Comparative Politics" at the Postgraduate Course in Political and Social Sciences of the same University.

Member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT (Level II). Associate Editor of Politics & International Relations of Latin American Research Review, the magazine of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and Co-Editor of Primer Saque, research blog of Revista Política y gobierno y Oraculus.

Doctor in Political Science (2001) and Master in Latin American Studies (1999) from the University of Salamanca (Spain). Journalist from Taller Escuela Agencia (1994) and Bachelor in Political Science (1996) from Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina). General Coordinator of the "Observatory of Political Reforms in Latin America", developed by the Organization of American States and the Legal Research Institute of UNAM.

Lic. Clara Marina Brugada Molina
Mayoress
First Mayor's Office of Iztapalapa

Recognized Mexican politician, with extensive experience as a social activist, legislator and public servant.

Economist for UAM-Iztapalapa and since she was very young she has worked for the transformation of Iztapalapa. She was the organizer of the first citizen plebiscite for democracy in the city.

Clara Brugada has promoted the free organization of citizens and the public advocacy of civil society organizations. She was a federal and local legislator, where she promoted legal initiatives to expand and guarantee the social rights of Mexicans. She governed Iztapalapa as head of delegation for 2009-2012. She was deputy and vice-president of the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City. From there she promoted a broad agenda of social rights, the strengthening of mayoralties as an order of government of Mexico City and the Human Right to Water.

María Alejandra Martínez
Representative of the Province of Buenos Aires


She was born on January 11, 1962 in Ayacucho, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied History at the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Mar del Plata.

Exercises her second mandate as deputy and is President of the Broad Front Justicialist Block in the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires.

She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Network of Parliamentary Mentors and the Women Leaders Committee of the Americas and Spain.

She promotes legislative initiatives aimed at promoting the equal participation of men and women at the hierarchical and decision-making levels (substantive parity), public policies and the care system; and gender-sensitive budgeting, among others.

Valeria Amendolara
Legislative councillor in the Chamber of Deputies of the Province of Buenos Aires


Professor, politician and Argentine feminist.

She was a councilwoman in La Plata (the first woman to be elected President of the council by democratic mean) and served two terms as a Buenos Aires deputy. She promoted initiatives to expand women's rights.

She is Director of Strategic Planning at the Center for Studies on Governance in La Plata and a member of Mujeres Líderes de las Américas .

She was one of the persons in charge of presenting the work of the Network of Mentoring Parliamentarians at the IV Ibero-American Summit of Local Gender Agendas, Cuenca; the XIV Summit of Political Communication, Madrid and the International Summit of Women Leaders, Arequipa.

Emilia García-Arteaga Molinar
Executive Director
TECHO México

Was born in Mexico City in 1990. She has a degree in Administration and Finance from the Universidad Panamericana, with studies on International Entrepreneurship at the Hogeschool in Utrecht, Holland. She is co-founder of the student group "B-Up!" that forms part of the university network of prevention and attention to disasters, UNIRED. She is currently a finance mentor at Collective Academy.

Her career within TECHO Mexico began as a volunteer community coordinator, then as a member of the contracted team in the coordination of productive development, then going through the administrative and finance management, commercial management and, from January 2020, general management. TECHO Mexico is the largest volunteer organization in Latin America, working together with neighbors of popular settlements to build a more just and poverty-free society.

Eva Ramírez
Founding Member and Coordination
Network of Parliamentary Mentors

Social communicator, politician and founding member of the Network of Parliamentary Mentors of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Her expertise is on issues related to cities, cultural and educational development at the local level, citizen participation and gender policies.
She was Press Director of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Secretary of Education and Culture of the Municipality of Quilmes and deputy of the Province of Buenos Aires.

She is currently a member of the Network of Mentor Parliamentarians working on agendas with a gender perspective, promoting initiatives aimed at facilitating, broadening and strengthening women's citizen participation, accompanying and strengthening local governments, trade unions and other social organizations of the Province in the construction of sustainable, equitable, inclusive and supportive territories, recognizing parity as a pending challenge for our democracies.

Liliana Piani
Representative of the Province of Buenos Aires


Social Psychologist

• She was a councillor of the City of San Fernando during two term.
• Vice President of the Civic Coalition Block ARI.
• Vice-President II of the Chamber of Deputies of the Province of Buenos Aires.
• Member of the National and Provincial Board Civic Coalition ARI, Candidate for National Congresswoman for the Civic and Social Front and Progressive Front.

GEN Block Advisor

• President of the Provincial Congress GEN Party
• She carried out seminars and specializations in; Young people with addictions in conflict with criminal law. National Council for Minors and the Family. National Ministry of Social Development.
• Municipalities; Democratization and Human Rights. National Human Rights Secretariat.
• Women Leaders, Provincial Council of Human Development and Family. Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
• She is currently a member of the Network of Mentoring Parliamentarians and coordinator of the Network for Gender Equity and Human Development of the Partido GEN Nacional.

Minerva Ante Lezama
Responsible for the Participatory Planning Unit of the General Directorate of Planning and Citizen Participation in the Mayor's Office of Iztapalapa


Minerva Ante Lezama. Doctor in social psychology from UNAM. Her research experience has focused on studies on social identity, sense of community, perception of insecurity, urban studies from a psychosocial perspective (gentrification processes in Mexico City) and community psychology.

Her experience in analysis and evaluation of public policies includes the coordination of diagnoses and studies on social rights and housing programs, infrastructure, migration, gender violence. She has a background in gender studies and collective projects of cultural and educational intervention. She is currently responsible for the Participatory Planning Unit of the General Directorate of Planning and Citizen Participation in the Mayor's Office of Iztapalapa.

Minerva does not believe in the effectiveness of social transformation and the development of communities from a single trench, be it the Academy, the State or social organization, to move towards a more egalitarian society vertical and horizontal collaboration is necessary.

Laura Gallego Moscoso
Director of the Centre for Political Analysis at EAFIT University, Department of Government and Political Science


Political scientist, with postgraduate studies in Administration, Government and Public Policies and applied economics. She has worked in the consulting and research areas of the Center for Urban Studies - urbam EAFIT Colombia, in the Center for Political Analysis EAFIT, in the Empresa de la Seguridad Urbana ESU, the Mayor's Office of Medellín, the IDB, UNDP and other public and private organizations in the areas of Government, Public Policies, land management, public administration and security.

She is currently the director of the Center for Political Analysis at EAFIT University, the platform for knowledge management and applied research, from which she has been leading in methodological terms the formulation of public policy on gender equity for urban and rural women in Medellín and the design of a metropolitan model for the management of security and metropolitan coexistence.

Bartiria Perpetua Lima da Costa
Director of International Relations of the National Confederation of Resident Associations - CONAM

• Coordination of the National Environmental Sanitation Front (FNSA)
• Coordination of the International Alliance of Inhabitants - IAHI
• Coordination of the Continental Community Front - FCOC

Imen Ouardani
Deputy Mayor of Sousse and Chairwoman of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men


holder of a doctorate in biological sciences. She is the author of numerous publications and a book chapter in the field of environmental microbiology. She is responsible for pharmaceutical documentation in a pharmaceutical industry.

She is currently the 1st Deputy Mayor of Sousse and Chairwoman of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. She was in charge of the annual municipal investment programme for 2019. She is the focal point of the "Migration from city to city in the Mediterranean MC2CM" project and the Oued Hamdoun depollution and development project.

Dulce Colin
Director General of the Honest Government Center of the Digital Public Innovation Agency of Mexico City


Director General of the Honest Government Center of the Digital Agency for Public Innovation of Mexico City, where she leads the policy and open government projects of the City.

She has more than 10 years of experience in public policy advocacy processes and citizen participation in organizations such as the United Nations Population Fund, Techo-Mexico, the Association of Latin American Entrepreneurs and Ethos-Public Policy Lab.

She has a degree in Journalism from the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism and is currently studying a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Gender at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Flacso).

She has also collaborated with different media such as Nexos, Horizontal, Emeequis, Expansión and Forbes.

Gabriela Sánchez Gutiérrez
Research Professor at the Mora Institute


Social Psychologist and Doctor in Institutional Analysis by the University of Paris VIII. Since 2005 she has been a Research Professor at the Mora Institute. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, SNI. From 2015 to 2018 she was Academic Coordinator of the Master in International Cooperation for Development at the institute itself. Dr. Sánchez is founder of the Mexican Network of International Cooperation for Development, REMECID, and founder and member of the Coordinating Group of the Ibero-American Academic Network for International Cooperation, RIACI. For more than thirty years, she has offered specialized advisory services for the institutional strengthening of civil society organizations and International Development Cooperation Agencies.

José Molina Molina
President of the Transparency Council of the Region of Murcia
Murcia, Spain

President of the Transparency Council of the Region of Murcia. Doctor in Economics, Sociologist and Auditor. Honorary President of the Open Chair for Innovation and Participation. His line of work deals with participatory budgeting, transparency and the fight against corruption.

Defender of the Public services, innovation and local development with collaborative procedures. He has published several articles and books in his long active research life, bearing the last one the title “A society with answers: Manifesto for Participation and Transparency”, edited by Tirant Lo Blanch in 2019.

Ahmad Rafai
Co-founder and Director of Kota Kita Foundation
Indonesia

Ahmad Rifai is the co-founder and director of Kota Kita Foundation (www.kotakita.org), Indonesia, which has a vision of a model city that is shaped and shared by informed and empowered citizens. He promotes projects in many cities in Indonesia for improving participatory planning and budgeting processes by making information available to citizens.

With Kota Kita, he develops Urban Citizenship Academy (UCA) where he actively involves assisting groups of young urban activist in different cities to develop useful project in the community level. Kota Kita also establish annual platform for engagement and sharing experiences and knowledge on urban development and initiatives called Urban Social Forum (USF). Apart from involving in guiding many urban projects in Kota Kita, Ahmad has involved in consultative projects with UN Habitat, UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, and ADB.

E-mail: myrifai78@gmail.com

Bruno Kaufmann
Global Democracy Correspondent at the Swiss Broadcasting Company
Switzerland

Bruno Kaufmann is the Global Democracy Correspondent at the Swiss Broadcasting Company. He has for decades been an active supporter of modern direct democracy at the local and regional level and has published widely on the issue including the „European Passport to Active Citizenship“ (available in 23 languages) and the „Global Passport on Modern Direct Democracy“.

Until 2017 he was member of a local city government in Sweden with executive responsibility for participatory democracy, elections and referendums. He is the founding member and co-president of the „Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy“ and Director of International Cooperation at the „Swiss Democracy Foundation“.

E-mail: kaufmann@iri-europe.org

Joe Mathews
Co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
Los Angeles, United States

Joe Mathews is co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy; he hopes to bring the forum to Mexico City in October 2021. Joe is editor and California columnist at Zócalo Public Square, a Los Angeles-based media nonprofit affiliated with Arizona State University.

Joe was formerly a reporter at the LA Times, Wall Street Journal and Baltimore Sun, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It and author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy.

E-mail: joe@zocalopublicsquare.org

Jai Sen
Architect/activist/researcher/author in and on movement.


Earlier a social organiser on dwelling, planning, and development issues, then a researcher into popular movement for a place to live, since the early 2000s he has worked to promote critical engagement with the World Social Forum and emerging world movement - as moderator of the listserve WSMDiscuss, as organiser of meetings and discussions across movements in the course of the World Social Forum, and as author, editor, and/or co-editor of several articles and books on movement.

He helped found and remains associated with CACIM (India Institute for Critical Action – Centre in Movement) in New Delhi, India, and is Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at uOttawa. He lives in New Delhi, India, and in Ottawa, on unceded Anishinaabe territory in Canada / on Turtle Island.

Bachir Kanoute
OIDP Coordinator for Africa
Dakar, SENEGAL

Bachir Kanoute is an urban planner who supports processes for decentralization, governance, local development, and the enhancement of local authorities’ and civil society leaders’ capabilities in Africa. Since 2011, he has coordinated the activities of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) for the African region.

His accomplishments include the drafting of teaching materials on participatory budgets, the organization of national and international training meetings for participatory budget consultants and facilitators, and the organization of international conferences on participatory budgets.

Antonio Hernández Llamas
General Director Institute of Participation and Community Action of Bogotá IDPAC


Lawyer from Los Andes University, with a post graduate degree in Armed Conflict Resolution.

He has served as Coordinator for Citizen Coexistence at the Security and Coexistence Program of Bogotá’s Mayor Office – Misión Bogotá, Under Secretary of Transit and Transportation of Bogotá, advisor to the Ministry of Communications for the reform of this sector, Director of the National Service Program Citizen, Deputy Director of Migration Colombia, national immigration authority.

As the Director of Bogotá’s Participation Institute, Hernández Llamas has led the implementation of a technical and transversal model, wich has succeeded in expanding citizen participation in the Colombian capital.

José Manuel Mayor Balsas
Researcher and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Open Chair for Innovation and Participation


Researcher and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Open Chair for Innovation and Participation. Doctor in Political Science and Public Administration, Degree in Economics and Master in Economics from the University of Murcia.

Participatory budgeting technician at the Molina de Segura City Council. His main lines of research are citizen participation, transparency and tax compliance. He has participated as a researcher in various contracts with public entities and research projects. He is currently coordinating the book "Participatory Budgeting: Opening public spending to citizens," edited by Tirant Lo Blanch.

Pascal Cloauire
Deputy Mayor of Grenoble


Pascal CLOUAIRE is Deputy Mayor of Grenoble, Delegate for Local Democracy, Local Economy and Europe. He is also a metropolitan councillor and a member of the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP).

Pascal CLOUAIRE is in charge of setting up a real local democracy aimed at empowering citizens to act. He has brought many experiences from participatory budgets to referendums on citizens' initiatives and citizen juries.

Grenoble's local democracy mechanisms are cited as some of the most innovative experiences in France.

Marc Serra Solé
lawyer and sociologist, Councillor for Citizenship Rights, Participation, Global Justice and the District of Sants-Montjuic in Barcelona City Council


Serra has been a technician at the Barcelona City Council, and has collaborated with several entities defending the human rights of the city. He has co-directed the documentary "Tarajal: desmontando la impunidad en la frontera sur". He has participated in different social and collective movements such as the Platform of People Affected by Mortgage and other forums in defense of the right to the city and against gentrification

From Barcelona City Council, among other things, he has worked closely in the promotion of the new Office for Non-Discrimination, he has been one of the promoters of the active census policies and the Neighbourhood Guide on avoiding the expulsion and internment of immigrants in an irregular situation.

Calisto Moisés Cossa
Mayor of Matola City


Calisto Moisés Cossa is actually Mayor of Matola City Council and President of the National Association of Municipalities of Mozambique.

He has a degree in Social Sciences from the Pedagogical and Law University of Eduardo Mondlane University.

In 2015, he was elected President of the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy, a post he held until the end of his one-year term, which ended with the holding of the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy Conference in Matola, which held over 3,000 participants, nationals and from 250 cities of the world.

From 2004 to 2013 he was successively, Head of Public Relations at the Ministry of Finance, Assistant and Advisor to the Minister of Finance.

He was also a Secondary School Teacher (10-12 Classes) from 2001 to 2007 at Franciscco Manyanga, Josina Machel and Amparo (Matola) Secondary Schools.

He is also a Member of the FRELIMO Party Central Committee

Email: ccossa1975@gmail.com

Guy Grenier
Coordinator of participatory approaches


An economist by training, Guy has extensive experience in citizen mobilization and group facilitation. Over the years, he has developed expertise in the design of training, facilitation and public consultation tools.

He collaborates with the Office de consultation publique de Montréal, where he acts as coordinator of participatory approaches and trainer. As such, he is experimenting with a variety of innovative facilitation and consultation approaches.

Predrag Milić
Predrag Milić, co-founder of Škograd Collective from Belgrade
Serbia

Predrag Milić is a co-founder of Škograd Collective from Belgrade, Serbia. As a trained architect and urban researcher he is working between urban development and critical pedagogy, and particularly the oppressed, silenced, and the poor people of Belgrade's urban periphery.

The Collective base its work in one of the self-provided suburban neighbourhoods of Belgrade in dealing with the discriminatory practices that shape the everyday life of local children. By organising summer schools for the children of this area the Collective provides space for exercising difference while building up a community. Predrag is currently positioned as a PhD researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at the TU Vienna.

email: milicpredr@gmail.com

webpage: https://skograd.org/en/home-en/

Ivan Shulga
Ivan Shulga/ Senior Specialist in the Russia Country Office of the World Bank


Since 2016 he is a project leader of the joint Russia Ministry of Finance and the World Bank project on Strengthening Participatory (Initiative) Budgeting in Russia that covers over 50 Russia regions implementing various participatory budgeting (PB) practices. Since 2007 Ivan has led dozens of the World Bank regional activities aimed at developing participatory practices and supporting local communities.

Specifically, he is a designer of the Russia Local Initiatives Support Program (LISP) – the first and most popular Russia PB model which is currently implemented in over 30 Russia regions. Ivan holds PhD in Economic and the author of a number of publications on PB

José Manuel Ribeiro
Mayor of Valongo Municipality, Portugal
Valongo, Portugal

José Manuel Ribeiro, 48, married, two children, Mayor of Valongo Municipality since 2013. Degree in International Relations, with an MBA in Business Management and specialization in Marketing, at the Catholic University of Porto. He is also a senior member of the Portuguese Trade and Investment Agency.

• Member of the Executive Council of the Association of Municipalities of Porto Mountains Park and President during 2018
• President of the Portuguese Network of Participative Municipalities since 2018
• Member of the National Economic & Social Council since 2018
• Member of the General Council of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities since 2013
• Non-executive member of the Board of the Great Porto Waste Management System since 2013
• National Defence Auditor
• Member of the Social Council of the Faculty of Economical Sciences and Business of Lusíada Norte University
• Commercial Director of the National Association of Clothing and Apparel Industries between 2004 and 2006
• President and General Director of the National Consumer Institute nowadays Consumer General Direction between 2007 and 2009
• Invited Teacher at the Portuguese Institute of Administration and Marketing between 2009 and 2011
• Member of the Advisory Councils of several national regulators (Social Communication, energy Services, Water and Waste, insurances) between 2007 and 2009
• Member of several institutional bodies of Information and Arbitration Centers of consumer conflicts between 2007 and 2009
• Member of the European Network of Consumers Protection between 2007 and 2009

E-mail: Jose.Ribeiro@cm-valongo.pt

Andres Falck
Director of Coglobal


Geographer and consultant in participatory processes and local development. He is the director of Coglobal, spanish non-profit organization focused on establishing inclusive relationships and transparency between local communities and democratic institutions. Among others is in charge of Children's Agora, a participatory democracy initiative for children.and girls.

Falck is a co-author of studies on the participation of children and young people in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua - Managua and the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy.

E-mail: andresflack@coglobal.es

Alvaro Blanco Morett
Researcher at Coglobal


Alvaro is a researcher at Coglobal, an organisation specialised in participatory processes and local development, in which he has participated in the area of communication in Ágora Infantil projects (2015-present), a participatory democracy programme for children in Andalusia.

He is currently a researcher in the project Networks of knowledge and decentralized cooperation and a doctoral candidate in the program of Education and Social Communication of the University of Malaga, a collaborating member of the research group ProCIE, HUM-619, of the UMA and a member of the RICCAP (Research Network in Community, Alternative and Participatory Communication).

E-mail: alvaroblanco@coglobal.es

Roberto Perez Baeza
Coordinator of Strategic Alliances, The Hunger Project Mexico


Roberto Baeza has been a Human Rights Defender since he was 19 years old. He has collaborated with national and international organizations such as MEXFAM, Coordinating the Young People Program, dedicated to bringing information on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in schools, mayor's offices, information fairs in neighborhoods, among other community spaces. He was Director of the initiative Avancemos ASHOKA Emprendedorea Sociales in Michoacán, promoting the training of young social entrepreneurs, particularly in the contexts of indigenous youth and state municipalities. He collaborated in ASILEGAL coordinating the youth area, promoting training programs for young people in DESCA rights and working with adolescents deprived of their liberty in Mexico City.

At the international level Roberto has had a wide experience, linking his community experience in spaces of political participation and influenced decision makers. He has followed up on Agenda 2030 at the national, regional and international levels. Roberto was part of the driving group for the creation and formalization of the Civil Society Participation Mechanism for Latin America and the Caribbean for Agenda 2030, a mechanism recognized by ECLAC in the Regional Forums on Sustainable Development 2030. He has been representative of Delegations of the Government of Mexico to the United Nations, among others.

E-mail: Roberto.perez@thp.org
FB: @THPMexico
TW: @THPMexico
Page: www.thp.org.mx

Daniel Schugurensky
Founder and Director of the Participatory Governance Initiative at Arizona State University


Daniel is the founder and director of the Participatory Governance Initiative at Arizona State University. He has conducted research on participatory budgeting since 1999, especially in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Canada and the United States. He helped organize several international conferences on citizenship learning and participatory democracy.

He is a member of the Research Board of the Participatory Budgeting Global Hub. He is currently working on participatory budgeting in educational institutions (School PB and College PB). His latest publications include Citizenship education through participatory budgeting: the Case of Bioscience High School in Phoenix, Arizona; Conflicts and tensions in the practice of participatory democracy: The case of participatory budgeting ,and Participatory budgeting, civic education, and political capital.

Alexandre dos Santos Pacheco
Special Advisor
City council of Foz do Iguaçu

He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1987), a specialization in Software Engineering from the Federal University of Paraná (1997) and a master's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2002). He has ITIL V3 and COBIT certification and an MBA in Project Management from FGV/UDC.

He has experience in the areas of Educational and Corporate Management, as Course Coordinator and Pedagogical and Manager of the Technical Support Division of Itaipu Binacional and as responsible for the PMO - Projects Office of the Superintendence of Informatics of Itaipu Binacional, was Director of PMI-PR. Provided services in the Municipal Secretariat of Tourism of Foz do Iguaçu implementing and supporting the Office of Portfolio Management and Projects and the strategic planning of the area.

He is currently a graduate professor at UEM - Universidade Estadual de Maringá and worked in the Assistance of the General Directorate of Itaipu in the executive secretariat of the West Program in Development. He is currently a PhD student in Regional Development and Agribusiness at DINTER of PGDRA-Unioeste/FPTI, was Tourism Coordinator at Itaipu Binacional and currently works in the construction and monitoring of the Planning of PMFI, in the coordination of the Participatory Budget and in the Management of the Program Reinventing Foz.

Jordi Foz i Dalmau
Secretary of Transparency and Open Government and coordinates the policies of Transparency, Open Data, Participation and promotion of the public integrity of the Government of Catalonia


He holds a degree in Law and a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Political Science from the University of Barcelona. For many years he worked as a lawyer specialising in administrative and urban planning law. In the field of urban planning, he has been secretary of the Commission of Territorial Policy and Urbanism of Catalonia, and one of the drafters of the Territorial Planning Law currently in process.

He also completed a Master's degree in Public Management at the School of Public Administration of Catalonia and a Management Function programme at ESADE. He has held various public management positions. He is currently secretary of Transparency and Open Government and coordinates the policies of Transparency, Open Data, Participation and promotion of the public integrity of the Government of Catalonia. The Secretariat of Open Government and Transparency has promoted different measures of deliberative participation in the elaboration of urban and territorial planning, especially in relation to strategic planning and the urban master plans

Dimitri Lemaire
CEO Inventio Group


Dimitri undertakes environmental management studies in Buenos Aires from 1996 to 2001. In 2002, he returns to Europe and gradually specializes political communication for high ranking civil servants and politicians. In 2009 he becomes advisor to the Vice President of the European Parliament and is responsible, among other things, for the implementation of large participatory events within the institution.

Dimitri leaves the European institutions to found Particitiz, which designs, develops and tests new and innovative processes of citizens’ participation and deliberation for political institutions, such as parliaments, ministries or municipalities.

He is also the founder of Inventio Group, a company offering genuine deliberative conferences to clients such as the European Parliament and Commission, embassies, or foundations.

André Viola
President of the General Council of the Aude


André Viola holds a PHD in French public law, specialised in constitutional law with a thesis on “The notion of Republic in the jurisprudence of the French Constitutional Council”.

He is still a senior lecturer in this University nowadays.André Viola is involved in politics since 1991. He started his political activities with the Young Socialists movement to address inequalities and change the institutions of the 5th French Republic.In 1998, he became the youngest Regional Counsellor of the Languedoc-Roussillon region before joining the General Council of the Aude Department as an elected representative of the Canton of Fanjeaux in march 2001.

Mayor of the city of Bram between 2003 and march 2011, he also became Vice-President of the Aude General Council in charge of education, youth, culture and sport. André Viola became President of the General Council of the Aude Department on march 31st, 2011 and resigned from his Mayor mandate of the city of Bram. André Viola is President of the Aude Departmental Council (who used to be called General Council) since 2011. He was re-elected for a second mandate in 2015.

Fully committed to provide an equal access to services for all inhabitants, he oversees the questions related to the territorial equality within the French Socialist Party. He is also leading the left wing Departments within the Association of the Departments of France. André Viola is deeply involved in the field of international cooperation and decentralised cooperation. He is:

• Vice-President of the “Latin Arch” (organisation of cooperation between local authorities from France, Spain and Italy bordering the Mediterranean coast) between 2011 and 2014
• Vice-President of the National Commission of Decentralised Cooperation and the National Council for the Development and International Solidarity
• President of the European Confederation of the intermediate local authorities
• Full member of the French delegation within the Committee of the Regions (EU)
• Member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
• Member of the Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget
• Member of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs
• Member of the French Association of the Council of Communes and Regions of Europe
• Member of the World Council of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Pablo García Arcos
Senior Technician of the Directorate of Citizen Participation of the Generalitat of Catalonia


He is responsible for the development and promotion of citizen participation projects for Urban Master Plans and the coordination of the Participation Group of the Network of Transparent Governments of Catalonia, as well as training actions in citizen participation for municipal technical teams.

Diego García
General Director of Citizen Participation of the Government of Guadalajara


Graduated in International Commerce at ITESO. He was a member of the Citizen Congress of Jalisco A.C. and of the interactive democracy platform Haz tu Ley; and a founding member of Tómala (http://tomala.mx/) and part of the editorial board, technical board and general assembly.

He has been moderator in the forum "The challenges of the media in the impulse towards a better accountability of the government" and has given talks in Madrid, Spain invited by the Union of Capital Cities of Ibero-America to share the experience of Citizen Participation in Latin America and to the VII Legislative Assembly of the Federal District about the experience of Citizen Participation.

He is currently participating in conferences in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco with the federal and state parliamentary group of Movimiento Ciudadano to publicize the platform and collaborates to the drafting of the proposed Citizen Participation Law initiative and the Fiscal Law both for the state of Jalisco.

Juan Manuel Martínez Louvier
General Director of National Institute of Social Economy of Mexico


In private labor sector

• Liaison and Advocacy officer of public interest in the Tepeyac Association of New York, United States in 2003
• Responsible in the Production Line of Water Cooled Engines at Volkswagen de México, Puebla from 2000-2001; and in Community Promotion of the Tepeyac Association of New York, United States in 1998

In public sector

• Coordinator for the the Evaluation of the POSSIBLE Program of the Monte de Piedad Foundation – Foundation Televisa from May to August 2018
• Coordinator for the evaluation of the National Entrepreneur Program of the National Entrepreneur Institute from October 2017 to May 2018
• Coordinator of the Young Ecosol Program of the National Institute of Social Economy - Mexican Institute of Youth of the Secretariat of Social Development in 2016
• General Coordinator in the Program Design & Evaluation of the Program to promote MSMEs and the Social Sector of the Economy 2015 of the Ministry of Economy from May 15, 2015 to July 7, 2015
• General Coordinator of the Diagnosis of the Program for the Promotion of Social Economy 2014-2018 published in the DOF on June 18, 2015 of the Ministry of Economy – National Institute of Social Economy from July 24, 2014 to September 12, 2014
• General Coordinator in the Diagnostic Study of the Program for the Promotion of Social Economy 2013 of the Ministry of Economy – National Institute of Social Economy from August 30, 2013 to December 11, 2013. As of December 1, 2018 to date, he serves as General Director of the National Institute of Social Economy

Studies:
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the University Iberoamericana of Puebla, a degree he obtained with Honorable Mention in 1999.
Master’s Degree D.E.A. in Development, environment and societies, by the Unversité Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 2004, and the Official European Master in Cooperative Business Management, by the Mondragon Unibersitatea in 2012

Alfonso Cotera
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Coordinator of RIPESS


Executive Director of the Peruvian Fair Trade and Consumer Network
Executive Director, GRESP
Coordinator of the Territorial Development program; Head of the Local Economic Development Program: Educational Services El Agustino

He has extensive experience in development, management, evaluation and systematization of social development projects; capacity development and management of social organizations; economic management strategies with organizations that work with children, adolescents, youth and women; sustainable local development planning, organization and training of Mypes, disaster risk management and market development. He has held management positions in private organizations, linked to: promotion and defense of human rights, sustainable local economic development, popular communication and education, proposals and initiatives of solidarity economy and fair trade, corporate social responsibility and ecological promotion. He has knowledge about the socio-economic and political reality of the country and the Latin American region and has written several books and documents, several of them were published in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English.

Studies:
Sociology studies at the National University of San Marcos de Lima (Peru), Diploma in Strategic Business Management at the Universidad del Pacífico (Peru); Administration of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Peruvian Institute of Business Administration; Diploma in Politics and Public Management at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Diego Fernando Maldonado Castellanos
Overseer Delegate for Participation and Special Programs


Political scientist with emphasis on public management from Universidad Javeriana and Specialist in Regional Development Management from Universidad de los Andes. He was Advisor to the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace on issues of citizen participation, political participation and social dialogue.

He served as Coordinator of the Peace and Development Group of the Directorate of Justice, Security and Government of the National Planning Department where, among other issues, he coordinated the preparation of the chapter 'Security, Justice and Democracy for Peacebuilding' of the National Development Plan 2014-2018, advised on different public policies on security and justice, accompanied the discussion of point 2, Political participation, in the Conversation Table of Havana, Cuba, led from the entity the process of construction of Statutory Law 1757 of 2015 on democratic participation, and designed CONPES policy documents with a territorial and participatory approach. He has been a university professor in the areas of "Armed Conflict and Peace Building", "Political Institutions", "Theories of Collective Action", and "Democracy and Citizen Participation".

Stéphane Vansantvoet
Counsellor to the Parliament of the Brussels Capital Region Belgium


Councillor at the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium), Mr Stéphane Vansantvoet coordinates the archives and documentation service and provides the secretariat of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Employment.

In 2017, he participated in the setting up of the Make your Brussels - Mobility pilot experiment, a panel of forty Brussels citizens drawn at random and devoted to the issue of mobility. The President of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region having decided to make participatory democracy one of the priorities of the new legislature, Mr Stéphane Vansantvoet as an official, becomes fully involved in the organisation of the work envisaged to strengthen citizen participation.

Omar E. Alejandre Galaz
District Executive Member
INE


A political scientist specialized in electoral and public opinion issues, he has worked as an information assistant in the newspaper La Jornada and editorial coordinator in the magazine En Pleno, Debate Legislativo. He worked as electoral analyst in the presidential campaign of 2006 and was part of the Department of Applied Research and Opinion of the Institute of Legal Research of the UNAM where he participated in various research projects, advising different institutions such as Conade, Coneval, Conapred, Pemex, among others.

He has published articles on the Mexican Congress and has given talks in Mexico and abroad on electoral laws, electoral administration bodies and decision-making processes. He headed the Citizen Committee of his community and, in the National Electoral Institute, has been active in the areas of Electoral Organization, Civic Education and currently serves as District Executive.

Miguel Pereira Bujater
Chief Coordinator of the Participation and Planning Unit of the Montevideo City Hall - Uruguay


Professional Agricultural Technician. Chief coordinator of the Participation and Planning Unit of the Montevideo City Hall, since 2015. Neighborhood Councilman in zone 5 of Montevideo, Uruguay, during the period 2005-2010. Councilor President of the Local Board of zone 5 of Montevideo, Uruguay, from 2005 to 2010. Municipal Councillor of Montevideo in the Municipality CH from 2010 to 2015.

Andrew Holland’s
City of Durham (NC) Department of Budget and Administrative Services.


Andrew Holland currently serves as the Budget Engagement Manager with the City of Durham (NC), Budget & Management Services Department. Andrew oversees the Participatory Budgeting Durham initiative for the City of Durham. Prior to joining the City of Durham, Andrew was the Assistant to the County Manager for Mecklenburg County (NC), the Assistant to the City Manager for the City of Fayetteville (NC) and was the Business Analyst for the City of Durham.

Andrew received his Masters of Public Administration from North Carolina Central University and Bachelor of Science in Urban & Regional Planning from East Carolina University.

Jaime Gonzalo Juaneda
Partner/Consultant - Local Government and Business Consultant; specialist in Institutional Development and Internationalization of Cities.


He is currently a Partner/Consultant for Local Government and Business; specialists in Institutional Development and Internationalization of Cities.

For the municipality of Cordoba he was director of Neighborhood Policies Direction in charge of the control and supervision of the Neighborhood Entities and the development and implementation of programs, processes, and projects. participatory tools. DELIBERATIVE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORDOBA. Counselor for the Radical Civic Union Block. Participated in social organizations and International networks as OIDP ARGENTINA. Executive Director for the Argentine Republic.

MERCOCIUDADES NETWORK.Served as subcoordinator of the Thematic Unit UT "Autonomy, Management and Participation".

Collaborator Arkemetria Social


Degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM. His lines of research focus on topics such as governmental transparency, social vulnerability, civil rights and corruption prevention.

He has participated in research projects at the Center for Latin American Studies of UNAM and the Mora Institute. He has collaborated in the organization of discussion forums, colloquiums and seminars. Since 2017 he has been a member of Arkemetría social and the CIMTRA Collective, where he has participated in studies and social projects of evaluation and performance of local governments and public institutions.

Gerardo Velarde
Ollin A.C. Advocacy Coordinator


He holds a degree in Public Administration and Political Science from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and a Master's Degree in Metropolitan Planning and Policies from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. He serves as Advocacy Coordinator in Ollin A.C working on issues of democracy, transparency and citizen participation.

He is a contributor to Nexos magazine and Milenio Diario".

Miguel Silva Graça
Advisor to the Deputy Mayor's Office Lisbon Municipality


Architect. PhD in Urban Planning (2004-2011), by Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. Master in Public Administration (2017-2018), by ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. Degree in Architecture (1995-2001), by Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal.

Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment - Universidade de Coimbra (CITTA-UC), since 2011. Advisor on Public Participation and Participatory Budgeting for the Lisbon City Council, since 2018. High Technician of the High Commission for Migrations, since 2017.

Advisor on Housing and Social Rights for the Lisbon City Council, from 2007 to 2017. Author of several books, chapters of books and scientific articles, published in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Great Britain, U.S.A., Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Turkey and Philippines.

Adrià Duarte Griñó
IOPD Global Coordinator


Degree in Political Science and Administration (Pompeu Fabra University) and Master in Political and Institutional Communication (University Institute of the Ortega y Gasset Foundation). Political scientist specialized in communication, with experience and research on electoral campaigns, political advice, political strategy and participatory democracy.

He is currently the coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy (OIDP) based in Barcelona. The IOPD is an international network of local governments and research centres that seeks to promote participatory democracy and democratic innovations at the local level.

Jaime Rubén Morales Beltrán
Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Secretariat of Inclusion and Social Welfare of the Government of Mexico City.


He has studies of Architecture in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as well as of Public Administration and Political Sciences in the Iberoamerican University. He is a defender of human rights, of diverse families and of people of sexual diversity.

In addition to advocacy, he has influenced other sectors as a promoter and cultural entrepreneur. As General Director of Grupo Café22, Restaurante Café22, Restaurante Litoral, Teatro Bar Café22, Productora Cafe22 and Teatro NH. He was part of the Frente Homosexual de Acción Revolucionaria (FHAR), where he served as head of the finance collective from 1980 to 1985, the year in which this collective was dissolved.

He founded the organization "We Are Family Also" where he coordinated the work in defense of the rights of all people to adoption regardless of their sexual orientation and the visibility of non-"traditional" families. He was founder and General Director of "Visbullas". - Civil association that seeks the visibility and organization of the families of people of sexual diversity with daughters and sons, seeking with it, to influence to contribute to consolidate an integral education on the family diversity.

He was co-founder and spokesperson of the Movement for Equality, Mexico (MoviiMx), a collective that integrates more than 183 organizations around the country, working to defend the rights of the LGBTTTI population and human rights in general. Spokesperson for the Campaign #SíAcepto for the legislative defense of Equal Marriage in the country. He is a founding member of the Mexican LGBTTTI+ Coalition.

Dr. Héctor Tejera Gaona
Doctor in Social Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, Division of Social Sciences.


He has been a Professor-Researcher in the Department of Anthropology since 1997. He is Master in Social Sciences and Doctor in Anthropology. Director of the International Journal Alteridades of the Department of Anthropology of the UAM-I.

In recent years he has coordinated the inter-institutional Basic Science project of CONACYT Las paradojas de la democracia en México (2012-2017) which was designated as a success case by the Council itself. In addition, he has participated in the network of Academic Bodies of PRODEP Public Space, Education and Political Culture (2010-2016); and the Academic Body Symbolic Anthropology and Power of the UAM-I (2010 to date).

He has published more than a hundred articles and book chapters on politics, citizenship and democracy, among other topics, in national and international scientific journals. He has presented more than a hundred papers in national and international academic spaces and has been a lecturer in around fifty locations. He has received the 2015 Research Prize and the 2012 Teaching Prize, both from the UAM.

In addition, the "Dr. Salvador Nava" award from the Mexican Society of Electoral Studies (SOMEE) for the best doctoral thesis in political-cultural studies. His essays and articles have been awarded in several contests.

Dr. Patricio Carezzana
Director General for Social Policy and Innovation Secretariat for Social Inclusion and Welfare


Doctor in Philosophy of Science from the University of the Basque Country. Master in Government and Public Affairs from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Mexico). Economist with a postgraduate degree in Innovation Development from UBA-Argentina. External professor at FLACSO-Mexico of the Master's Degree in Comparative Public Policies. He served as Director of Information Analysis in the VII Legislature of the Federal District.

Advisor of the National Plan of Social Economy of the Knowledge of Ecuador. He was a research member of the Macro Project "Knowledge Society and Cultural Diversity" at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. With more than 15 years of experience in public service in Latin America. He has a wide trajectory of research and work in strategic planning, design and implementation of social development policies, education, science and technology. Specialist in evaluation and monitoring of social, educational and community projects and programs.

Osmany Porto de Oliveira
Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp)


Osmany Porto de Oliveira is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). He received a PhD from the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III (2015) and a PhD from the University of São Paulo (2013). He received his B.A in International Relations from the University of Bologna in Italy in 2006 and a M.A in Societés Contemporaines: Europe-Amériques from the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle/IHEAL in France in 2008. He won in 2019 the “Early Research Award” of the International Public Policy Association (IPPA), and the award of best young researcher from European Council for Social Research on Latin America (2013). His main books are “Latin America and Policy Diffusion”, with C. Osorio, S. Montero and K. Leite, Routledge, 2019, “International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting”, Palgrave McMillan (2017) and “Le transfert d’un modèle de démocratie participative: Paradiplomatie entre Porto Alegre et Saint-Denis” (2010), Éditions IHEAL/CREDA.

Kumar Rao
Director of the Justice Transformation Program Center for Popular Democracy


Kumar Rao is New York-based Director of the Justice Transformation program at the Center for Popular Democracy, where he leads its justice policy and campaign work, including supporting grassroots organizations and elected officials in the fight for racial equity and criminal justice transformation at the local, state, and federal levels.

He presently also serves as a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, an appointee to the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Lawyer Referral and Information Service, and a Scholar with the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding. A former litigator and public defender, he has represented thousands of clients in both criminal and civil matters.

José Antonio Ochoa Pantoja
Director of transparency and fight against corruption
Municipal Autonomous government of la Paz

He is a lawyer by profession, with postgraduate degrees in Criminal Procedural Law, Notary and Registry Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Higher Education. He worked and advised public and private institutions in Bolivia and internationally in various areas of law mainly in human rights, constitutional law and criminal procedure (National Secretariat of Finance, former Government Notary, Consultant of the Housing Policy Support Program of the Vice Ministry of Housing and Basic Services - Ministry of Economic Development, financed by the IDB), was a member of the "Center for Studies on Justice and Participation" (CEJIP) NGO whose objective is to contribute to the consolidation and strengthening of the rule of law.

Since 2015, he has been Director of Transparency and Fight against Corruption of the Municipal Autonomous Government of La Paz, President of the "Citizen council of planning in Ethic and Tranparency" of the municipality of La Paz, member of the Working Group "Open government and tranparency" of the Union of Iberoamerican Capital Cities UCCI and has participated in different activities of Mercociudades and UCLG in topics such as: transparency, citizen participation, open government, open data, open contracting, integrity, accountability, fight against corruption.

Rodrigo Ricardo Soliz Bonilla
Municipal Secretary for Public Infrastructure
Municipal Autonomous Government of La Paz

A Bolivian national, he was born in the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz in 1972. He studied at the Colegio San Calixto and obtained a degree in Industrial Engineering at the School of Engineering of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres. He later completed the Master in International Business Administration (MBA I) of the European School of Business. Graduated in Financial Management and Administration, Integral Risk Management, Quality and Productivity Management Systems, Business Management, Science and Technology, Legal, Government, Teaching and Higher Education have cooperated in the development of his functions throughout his professional careers.

As a professional, he held functions in private entities (1994 - 2009), standing out his participation in: Sumapacha Industrial (Operations Manager), Industria de Cerámica Paz INCERPAZ (Production Manager) and Decoraciones Brasilia (Manager). Already for the public sphere (2009-present) he began as General Secretary in the borough council Center, where he served multiple times as borough-mayor on an interim basis. Subsequently, he was appointed Director of Maintenance of the Municipality of La Paz, where his outstanding work led to his appointment as Chief Public Infrastructure Officer. He currently serves as Municipal Secretary of Public Infrastructure of the Municipal Autonomous Government of La Paz.

Thomas Scuderi
Deputy Mayor, Delegate for Citizenship and Participatory Democracy. City of Metz


After a career of involvement in civic bodies, Thomas Scuderi decided to make a political commitment and took his card in the Socialist Party in 2005. In 2008, he campaigned alongside Dominique GROS and was part of the first left-wing majority that would lead the City of Metz. From 2008 to 2014, he will be the deputy in charge of youth and community life. In 2014, with the municipal team renewed, the mayor will appoint him deputy in charge of citizenship and participatory democracy.

Since then, Thomas has officially joined the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy and has led a network of cities that defend the principle of citizen participation and that has been called "The Cities of Tomorrow". Thomas SCUDERI is fully active and mobilized to develop the principles of direct democracy. He set up one of the first participatory budgets in France.

José Martín Padilla Sánchez
Local Deputy and President of the Citizen Participation Commission, Congress of Mexico City with the Parliamentary Group of MORENA


He has experience in the fields of volunteerism and leadership, especially, serving as a member of the Committee Citizen of Torre Blanca colony, Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City. During his tenure as a member of this body of citizen representation, he carried out various tasks on behalf of his neighborhood and contributed to management actions between the inhabitants of his neighborhood and the Government of the then Miguel Hidalgo Delegation. As part of his political experience, from 2012 to 2018 he served as Territorial Coordinator of Morena. His professional experience also involves his performance as a merchant-owner from 1997 to 2007.

Lev Shilov
Director Research Center on Urbanism and Participation at the European University at St. Petersburg


Lev is a scholar and an active consultant on public participation. He is a Director of the Research Center on Urbanism and Participation at European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). He is also a member of the team in EUSP that developed a participatory design that is implemented in more than 20 Russian townships and cities (“Your budget”). Lev is PhD candidate in political science at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). His research interests include quantitative methods in social science, local governments, and both local and urban activism.

Josh Lerner
Director of Global PB Hub, Co-Executive Director of Participatory Budgeting Project


Josh leads the development of the Global PB Hub. He has 20 years of experience developing, researching, and working with leading community engagement programs across North America, Latin America, and Europe. He is co-founder and Co-Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), a nonprofit organization that empowers people to decide together how to spend public money, across the US and Canada.

This work has been recognized by the Obama White House as a model for open government. Josh completed a PhD in Politics at the New School for Social Research and a Masters in Planning from the University of Toronto.

Ruben Dario Gonzalez Hernandez
Project Manager
IDPAC

Psychologist; Specialist in Political Studies and Legal and Forensic Psychology.

With more than 15 years of experience in National Government entities, in the sectors of Planning, Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense, he is currently the Project Manager of the District Institute of Participation and Communal Action of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá, from where he has directed the development and implementation of the district management model for participation Uno más Uno = todos, Una más Una = Todas , a methodology through which social, communal and community actors achieve minor works and execute projects and social initiatives, with a highly participatory, sustainable and integral approach, which promotes, through transformations in the public space, the strengthening of new leaderships and collaborative work.

José Fajardo
Councillor
Decentralized Autonomous Government of Cuenca

He was born on March 17, 1957. Graduated as a Graduate in Management for Sustainable Local Development and also as a Graduate in Administration Sciences, he later obtained a Master in Administration and Human Resources Management and a Master in Environmental Engineering and Industrial Safety, in addition to several International Diplomas. As an expert in mediation, he worked with several communities in the treatment of conflicts and training of community mediators.

He currently has more than 40 years of experience in community and rural work with various types of projects. He is Rural Councillor of the Canton Cuenca and President of the Infrastructure and Public Works, Appraisals and Cadastres, and Boundary Commissions.

Claudio Sule Fernández
Executive Secretary
Network of Local and Subnational Governments of Latin America and the Caribbean for Sustainable Development

Engineer graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1986, graduated in Decentralization of Latin America in 2004 and Master of the University of Barcelona in Territorial Planning with a mention in Environment in 2019.

Founder in 2014 of the Latin American Meeting of Progressives (ELAP).
In 2017, he created the Forum of Local and Subnational Governments of Latin America and the Caribbean for Sustainable Development, from where he proposes that in order to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Objectives, it is necessary to plan territories with Citizen Participation and in an articulated manner between the local, regional and national levels. At the same time, it highlights the need to elaborate public policies from the local to the national and international levels.

In 2019, in the context of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), it achieves a meeting between the Forum of National Governments of Latin America and the Forum of Local and Subnational Governments to agree on joint actions for the achievement of Agenda 2030.

Camilo Romero
Governor of Nariño


Social Communicator and Journalist, Master in Political Studies.
He was Colombia's youngest Senator from 2010-2014 and ranked as one of the 7 best in the country.
Politician and activist for the environment, climate change and the defense of life. His political project is called New Government based on 3 fundamental principles: Open Government, Social Innovation and Collaborative Economy.

His management has led him to be elected by Colombia Líder as one of the 3 best governors of Colombia 2016-2019 thanks to his work axes based on the restoration of the public life, being also considered as the most participatory government in the history of Colombia.
He is currently the governor of the Department of Nariño and considered a serious contender for presidential office for the 2022-2026 term.

Ángel Gustavo Duche Sacaquirin
Councillor
Decentralized Autonomous Government of Canton Cuenca

Born on August 11, 1962, he holds a degree in Political and Social Sciences as well as a Doctor of Jurisprudence and a Lawyer from the Courts of Justice of the Republic of Ecuador from the University of Cuenca. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Azuay Bar Association and has a strong relationship with the Rural Parish of San Joaquin where he was President of the Parish League, Political Lieutenant, Vice President of the Parish Council and President of the Parish Council.

He was also an official of the Azuay Provincial Government and a member of the Association of Rural Parishes of the canton of Cuenca and of the Consortium of Rural Boards of Cuenca. He participated in events such as the III WORLD SUMMIT "ZERO HUNGER".

Christian Lemos
Municipal Secretary of Institutional Relations
Municipality of Porto Alegre

Graduate in Public Management, he was Chief of Staff of the mayor Nelson Marchezan Junior, Executive Secretary of the PSDB-RS, Municipal Secretary of Works and Urbanism of the City of São José do Norte, in the south of the state (Rio Grande do Sul), and directed for four years the Teotônio Vilela Institute, also in Rio Grande do Sul.

Jaime Fernando Cárdenas Gracia
Full-time C researcher at the Legal Research Institute of UNAM and Professor at the Faculty of Law of that University


Doctor in Law from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with Honorable Mention, and from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with Cum Laude Mention. He has specializations in Human Rights from the Complutense University and in Political Science from the Center for Constitutional Studies in Madrid.

He has been Visiting Fellow at Yale University and Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University. He is a researcher at CONACYT, level III. He has received various awards and recognitions such as the Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Annual Prize in 1994 and the National Journalism Prize in 2004. He was invited as an expert of the international group that reviewed the technical inputs that supported the installation of the Constituent Assembly in Bolivia in 2006.

He was Electoral Advisor of the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute 1996-2003. Counsellor of the Judiciary of the Federal District 2007-2008. 2009-2012 Federal Deputy. Constituent Deputy of Mexico City 2016-2017. He is currently a full-time C Researcher at the Legal Research Institute of UNAM and Professor at the Faculty of Law of that University. His books in recent years are: 1) Del Estado absoluto al Estado neoliberal, México, UNAM, 2017; 2) La Constitución de la Ciudad de México.

Análisis crítico, Mexico, Instituto Belisario Domínguez del Senado de la República-UNAM, 2017; 3) La nulidad de la elección presidencial, Mexico, Tirant lo Blanch, 2018; and, 4) Ley de Seguridad Interior (coordinator), Mexico, Tirant lo Blanch, 2019.

José Octavio Acosta Arévalo
President of the Network of Local Government Researchers (IGLOM) and Director of Programmes at the International Association of City Management ICMA-ML


Sociologist and Municipalist with 35 years of experience in governmental institutions, civil and Associations of municipalities. Researcher, promoter and professor of topics such as good governance, democracy, local development, public ethics and prevention of violence and crime and author of various publications on these topics.

President of the Network of Researchers in Local Governments (IGLOM) and Director of Programs in the International Association of Administration of Cities ICMA-ML.

Pablo Enrique Yanez Rizo
Research Coordinator at CEPAL


Economist and teacher in government and public affairs by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Specialist in social policy, poverty, inequality, gender perspective, human rights, evaluation of public policies. He has been a speaker on these topics in Mexico and abroad. He has published several essays and articles on these issues in Mexico, the United States, Uruguay, Argentina and India.

For 14 years he was an official in the social area of the Government of the Federal District and among his responsibilities he was founder and general director of the Council for the Evaluation of Social Development of Mexico City. He has been head of ECLAC's social development unit at the subregional headquarters in Mexico and is currently its research coordinator for Mexico, Central America, Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Paulo Alexandre Marques Francisco
Head of the Participation Division of the Lisbon Municipality


In 2015 he was appointed Head of the of Organizational Innovation and Participation Division (Lisbon City Council) where since that time he is responsible for the organization and annual management of the Participatory Budget cycles, development and implementation of the Lisbon Participation Portal, creation of LisboAideia participation modules and thematic consultations.

It is also worth noting the Lisbon Municipality's adherence to the Participatory Municipalities Network, the development of a new concept of decentralization of PB and the development of an integrated digital voting system.

Rene Coulomb
Researcher at the University of the Americas Mexico City


An urban sociologist is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico, the National Council of University Students for a new development strategy, FOROPOLIS and the Housing International Coalition. Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México, he was a research professor at this institution for 36 years, until 2018, in the area of Urban Sociology and in the master’s degree in Metropolitan Planning and Policies.

Founder and coordinator of research projects at the Center for Housing and Urban Studies, CENVI A.C. from 1979 to 1997, he is currently a researcher at the University of the Americas Mexico City.

Edgar Antonio Martínez Zendejas



He has a degree in Sociology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Xochimilco Unit.
He has carried out several complementary studies in Public Finance, Strategic Planning, Participatory Planning and Human and Community Development.
He has 18 years of experience in the development and training of public servants at the municipal, state and federal levels; having worked in local governments as a public official, holding first level positions as Director and President of the DIF Municipal System, Deputy Director of Social Development, Coordinator of Advisors, Technical Secretary, Municipal Administrator, Internal Comptroller and Treasurer, in municipal governments of the State of Mexico.

He has been legislative advisor in matters of Finance, Public Security, Human Settlements, National Defense and member of the consulting team of the Association of Local Authorities of Mexico, A.C. (AALMAC) from 2007 to 2015, where he also served as Coordinator of Treasurers from 2007 to 2010.

In recent years he has served as a private consultant in diagnosis, elaboration, execution and evaluation of social and human development programs, finance and participatory planning, inclusive public policies, implementation of participatory budget and other tools of democratic inclusion, in more than 30 municipal and 8 state governments throughout the country.

As Municipal Treasurer, in matters of participatory budgeting and local development practices, he participated in the recognition with the award "Government and Municipal Management" during the period 2008-2009 of the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, CIDE. During this period it also received recognition from the Instituto Hacendario del Estado de México for increasing the municipality's own income from 14 to 22 percent in the 2007-2009 period.

He has participated in various international meetings as an exhibitor and facilitator in development management and participatory democracy, including in Nanjin, China (IV World Urban Forum of the World Bank in 2008) and the Mayor's Office of León, Venezuela (2009).

In 2015 he developed the Participatory Budget Guide for Prevention, of the Social Prevention of Violence program, financed and published by USAID, United States Agency for International Development.

Hector Javier Garcia Chávez
Congress of the State of Morelos

• The political trajectory of Héctor Javier García Chávez has been characterized by a tireless struggle for a free, fair and democratic Mexico.
• For more than 34 years, his commitment has been to the side of those who have less, from his participation in the student movement, in urban social organizations, as well as in solidarity support for the struggles of Latin American peoples for their liberation, in their passage through democratic unionism; in unconditional support for peasant and indigenous movements; as a democratic government official he was characterized by his social commitment and honesty.
• For more than 34 years, his commitment has been to the side of those who have less, from his participation in the student movement, in urban social organizations, as well as in solidarity support for the struggles of Latin American peoples for their liberation, in their passage through democratic unionism; in unconditional support for peasant and indigenous movements; as a democratic government official he was characterized by his social commitment and honesty.
• As a student of the Escuela Superior de Economía del I.P.N., he stood out as a leader of the Student Struggle Committee and founder of the National Student Organization.
• In 1980 he participated in the Committee of Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua; after the triumph of the Sandinista revolution he collaborated actively in the literacy campaign and in the emerging health programs that were carried out in the city of Estelí, Nicaragua.
• Following the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, he led the struggle of the victims in Colonia Morelos, organizing those affected in Asociación Civil Nuevo Amanecer, serving as its President, leading negotiations with the then President of the Republic Miguel De Lamadrid Hurtado, as well as efforts to rebuild housing before international aid agencies, such as the Swiss Red Cross, among others.
• In 1988 he was pre-candidate of the Mexican Socialist Party to the First Assembly of Representatives of the Federal District.
• In 1994 he was candidate of the P.R.D. to the Federal Deputation of the District IV, of the Federal District. During the years that he worked in Teléfonos de México, he actively participated in the Sindicato de Trabajadores Telefonistas as a union delegate, achieving wage benefits and better general working conditions for the union.
• In 2003 he was in charge of the Undersecretary of Electoral Affairs of the P.R.D., designing new and successful electoral strategies for the processes in the states of Oaxaca, Hidalgo and Estado de México.
• He has collaborated in democratic governments, serving as Subdirector of Territorial Regularization and Subdelegate of Social Development in the Delegation of Tlalpan; Legal and Government Subdelegate in the Delegation of Milpa Alta, Coordinator of Citizen Participation in the Delegation Coyoacán.
• In the State of Guerrero he served as Director General of the D.I.F.
• In the State of Michoacán, he held the position of Inter-institutional Relations Coordinator for the period 2008-2010. From 2012 to 2014 he collaborated with the government of Morelos, serving as General Coordinator of Political Development and Strategic Projects.
• From September 1, 2015 to August 30, 2018 he was Federal Deputy of the LXIII Legislature, of the H. Chamber of Deputies elected by the Dtto. 2, of the State of Morelos.
• From September 1 to date is part of the LIV Legislature of the Congress of the State of Morelos.

José Luis Gutierrez Curreño
Association of Local Authorities of Mexico, AC.


*Mexican municipalist*, promoter of diverse agendas of *immediate action* such as the agenda for *sustainable development*, the new *urban and metropolitan agenda* and the agenda for the *participatory democracy* and the agenda for the transformation and *strengthening of the municipalities of 🇲🇽 Mexico*.

- Coordinates the Advisory Council of the *Asociación de Autoridades Locales de México*, AC.
- He directs the digital radio program *REPUBLICA MUNICIPALISTA*, from the platform. *? PUBLIC WINDOW, ? the social radio of Mexico ?
- Coordinates the Network of Civil Society Organizations * SOCIAL REGENERATION MX* with headquarters in the State of Mexico.
- He has been Municipal President of Ecatepec de MORELOS; Federal Deputy and political leader and partisan.

Carlos Gonzalez Martínez
Independent Consultant President of CIVITAS, AC. Associate Researcher, José Ortega y Gasset Foundation of Spain in Mexico.


Economist from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and candidate for a Doctorate in Contemporary Latin America from the Fundación Ortega y Gasset of Spain, he studied the Specialty in Electoral Law, taught by the Postgraduate Unit of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation. He has completed multiple diplomas and specialties in higher education institutions in Mexico and Spain.

In 1991 he entered the National Autonomous University of Mexico as a full-time researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities and Professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Since then, his teaching career has also developed at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Colegio de la Frontera Norte and the Fundación Ortega y Gasset de España in Mexico, among other institutions.

Author of multiple chapters of books and specialized articles published in Mexico, Spain and Italy, as well as lecturer participating in various events in Mexico and abroad, he is coordinator of the collective book "Voto, luego exijo. Mexico after the 2018 elections", with which Ediciones Ilyo began its Collection "Building Citizenship" and prepares the essay book "Democrats for Democracy. Construcción de Ciudadanía y Democracia Directa Moderna para México" (Building Citizenship and Modern Direct Democracy for Mexico) under the editorial seal of the University of Xalapa.

A specialist with more than twenty years of experience in electoral issues, transparency and citizen participation, he has held positions of high responsibility in autonomous constitutional bodies that guarantee fundamental human rights of citizenship, such as the three Mexican federal electoral institutions and the Electoral Institute of Mexico City, as well as in international organizations.

He currently serves as an independent consultant, professor of the Master in Electoral Law at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and Associate Researcher of the Fundación Ortega y Gasset de España in Mexico, where he coordinates the Diploma "Governance, elections and citizen participation". He was Editorial Advisor of the newspaper Reforma, is a columnist for El Andén and Cambio de Michoacán, among other media, and has the website www.carlosgonzalez.mx where his texts and conferences are hosted. He is president of the Board of Directors of CIVITAS, AC, National Spokesperson for the Cause #Transparent Parties of the citizen organization Nosotrxs, Associate of the Mexican Society of Electoral Studies, member of the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy (OIDP), based in Barcelona and Coordinator of the National Organizing Committee of the Global Forum for Modern Direct Democracy 2021 in Mexico City.

webpage: www.carlosgonzalez.mx