Fabio Mauricio Segura

Projekt Manager
Forest Policies Project, Kolumbien

Fabio Segura holds a professional degree in Government and International Relations from the Externado de Colombia University, with emphasis in Peace and Conflict Studies from La Trobe University (Australia). As peace and development worker, Mr. Segura has assisted several local governments in vulnerable regions in Colombia in the design of peacebuilding and development policies and worked with numerous grassroots communities in situations of vulnerability. Likewise, Mr. Segura has served as consultant for several National Offices of the United Nations: UNODC (Editor in Translation and Context Analysis for Publications of the Program on Traffic in Persons), UNICEF (Coordinator of the Peace Education through Peace Observatories Program), and FAO (Analyst for International Cooperation for Development).

Due to achievements in the fields of conflict transformation, peacebuilding and Latin American studies, Mr. Segura has been invited as lecturer in universities including the University for Peace of the United Nations in Costa Rica, as well as academic groups, talks and conferences in Colombia, France, Sweden, Romania, Australia and the United States. Most recently Mr. Segura was invited to implement a training program on conflict intervention for the Colombia Work Group of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

Mr. Segura is currently involved with ETHsustainability as Project Manager in Latin America, where he works on the expansion of the centre‚s educational programs and other initiatives in the region. In the context of the 2004, 3rd Dialogue on Science of the Academia Engelberg, titled „Will Climate Change the World?‰ Mr. Segura was coauthor of the Latin American Forests Policies Research and Influence Project. The initiative resulted in the International Student Initiative for Action on Climate Change, which today has members in 7 countries and of which he is currently the Regional Project Manager.