Global Affiliates

Dr. Alexander López is currently a professor at the National University of Costa Rica and Latin American Consultant for the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. He is the former director of the “Central American Institute for Public Administration” (ICAP), a regional international organization. He is also the former director of the Institute for International Affairs at the Universidad Nacional of Costa Rica. He has worked in several countries including Norway, Vietnam, South Africa, India, Brazil, México and throughout Central America on issues related to international environmental policies (water management and climate change). Dr. López has given lectures and seminars in more than 40 countries around the world and has published extensively in Spanish and English with well-known publishers such as SAGE, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), Routledge and Kluwer Academic Publishers.

In addition, Dr López has been consultant of several institutions such as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the European Union among others. He attended the following international conferences in the context of his work.

• 2023. Shaping future governments: The Environmental Dimension. World Government Summit.  Dubai, UAE.

• 2023. Análisis comparativo entre la Convención de Nueva York de 1997 y la Convención del Agua de 1992. Academia Diplomática del Paraguay.

• 2022. La gestión de cuencas transfronterizas en América Latina. Conferencia de directores de Agua de América Latina. República Dominicana.

• 2022. La gobernabilidad de las Cuencas Transfronterizas en Centroamérica. Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.

Recent book publications 

· López, Alexander (2023) La gobernanza de las Cuencas Transfronterizas: Un reto allende del Estado-Nación. EUNA. Heredia, Costa Rica.

· López, Alexander (2018). Escenarios para un nuevo régimen internacional de cambio climático. Instituto Centroamericano de Administración Pública. ICAP. San José, Costa Rica.

Bionote

Dr. Lopez holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway in the field of Environment and Development. He is a renowned expert in his field of water management and climate change and has worked for many UN and regional organisations listed above.