Gilberto Carlos Gallopín

Gilberto Carlos Gallopín is currently an Independent Scholar.

He was born in Argentina. He has both Argentinean and Italian citizenship.

He received the degree of Licenciado in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 1964, and of Ph.D. in Ecology from Cornell University in 1969.

He has been Regional Adviser on Environmental Policies, in the Environment and Human Settlements Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Director of the Systems for Sustainable Development Programme of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) based in Stockholm, Sweden; Leader of the Land Use Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) based in Cali, Colombia; Senior Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Winnipeg, Canada; Senior Expert on Environment and Development in the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Fundación Bariloche, Argentina, as well as the Executive President of the latter. He is a founder member of the "Dialogue for a New World". Until early 1991, he has been the Director of the Ecological Systems Analysis Group (Argentina). The Group has been collaborating with the UNCED Secretariat in relation to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and with the UNDP and IDB in the preparation of "Our Own Agenda".

Gallopín has been a co author of the Latin American World Model, co author of a book on adaptive environmental impact assessment and management, and of a book on environmental problems and opportunities in Latin America, and author of a book on impoverishment and sustainable development.

Gallopín has been performing research, technical assistance, and post graduate training in the areas of ecological systems analysis, food chain and niche theory, environmental impact assessment, environmental and land use prospective, environment and development nexus, environment and quality of life, impoverishment and sustainable development, vulnerability-resilience-adaptive capacity analysis, scenario analysis, and indicators of sustainable development. He has published more than 100 papers in these areas.

He has been a member of an Advisory Panel of the Bruntland Commission, director of the project "Ecological Prospective for Latin America", and director of the project "Global impoverishment, sustainable development, and the environment", among others. He has an extensive experience on interdisciplinary research.

E-mail:  gilberto.gallopin(at)fibertel.com.ar