Alberto Garrido

Alberto Garrido completed his studies as an agricultural engineer in 1989 at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (U.P.M). 1992 he obtained a Master of Science in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis and got his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the U.P.M in 1995.

In the following years, he worked at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute in Saragossa, at the University of California and as an assistant professor at the U.P.M. Afterwards he became researcher for the Water Policy and Law Group at the University of South Australia and visiting scholar at the University of California.

He worked as an adviser for the following projects: five OECD projects in Paris from 1997 until 2006, three projects of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1997 until 2003, for the European Parliament in 2001 and three projects of the European Commission from 1994 until 2005. In the years from 2002 to 2006, he worked for the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Spanish Parliament; 2002/03 he worked in projects of the autonomous regions Aragon und Navarre, for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in 2003 and for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 1998 until 2005.

Alberto Garrido has been associate professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos at U.P.M since 1998.