Speakers

Last position: Head of the Culture, Nature and Heritage Department. Council of Europe. A biologist and environmentalist by training, he occupied different teaching and research positions in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid from 1976 to 1985 where he held a post as assistant professor in Ecology. In May 1985 he joined the Council of Europe where he has worked since mainly on environment, disaster risk reduction, cultural heritage and interculturality issues. His main field of competence is conservation and management of biological and landscape diversity. At present he is Special Advisor of the Cultural Routes Programme.