Dr. Letícia Merino

Leticia Merino has a PHD in Anthropology from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Masters in Population and Development (Jawarharlal Nehru University), a Masters on Sociology (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), and studies on Forest Governance (Workshop for Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University) and Sustainable Development (Colegio de México).

For more than 30 years LM has taken part, as coordinator and team member, of research projects on socio-environmental themes, particularly on natural resources and ecosystem management by rural/indigenous communities, focusing on forest and bio-diversity use, commons governance and more recently on impacts of extractive economies on local sustainability and pease. She collaborated for 15 years, in research and teaching projects on community forestry with Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Price on Economics, 2009.

Since 1995 LM is a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, and teacher at the Postgraduate Program on Sustainability Sciences at UNAM. Since 2016 she chairs UNAM Seminar “”Sociedad, Medio Ambiente e Instituciones”, where she coordinated research and advocacy programs with the collaboration of 40 academicas and NGO members.