Elsa Galarza: the first woman to head Peru's Ministry of Environment
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Source: Actualidad Ambiental
Economist Elsa Patricia Galarza Contreras will be the head of the Ministry of Environment (Minam) in the Government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the first woman in the position previously held by Antonio Brack Egg (2008-2011), Ricardo Giesecke Sara Lafosse (2011) and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal Otálora (2011-2016).
Elsa Galarza is Director of the Research Center of the Universidad Pacifico (CIUP) and Senior Lecturer in the Academic Department of Economics at the same university. The researcher has experience in capacity building for local governments and social organizations in comprehensive environmental assessments in Peru and in Andean countries.
Galarza has conducted research on production economics, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, and climate change for national and international organizations. She has also provided advice and support to various organizations. For example, she has been a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), among other institutions.
In the State, she has been a member of several technical support committees and has worked as an advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and the Vice-Ministry of Fisheries. In 2009, she was Vice-Minister of Fisheries of the Ministry of Production, and Advisor to the Minister of Economy and Finance (2010). In 2009 she was also Member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Environment, and a year before she was part of the Intersectoral Group that created this portfolio. She is currently part of the Technical Advisory Board of the National Environmental Certification Service for Sustainable Investments (Senace).
Academic studies
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico. He has a master's degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Iowa (USA), in addition to specialization studies in environmental issues at Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID), Harvard University, USA (Workshop on Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis); at INCAE, Costa Rica (Course in Sustainable Development Financing); at the World Bank Institute - Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Network - REALAC (Political Economics of the Environment); and at Wageningen University UR (Ecosystem Appproach to Fisheries).
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