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Speakers
Ms
Tiahoga Ruge
Coordinator - General, Centre for Education and Capacity Building
for Sustainable Development, Secretariat of the Environment
and Natural Resources, Government of Mexico
 She
has born in Mexico and has extensive international experience
in promoting the environment through television, films, videos,
internet and other communication technologies. Currently Coordinator
General of the Education and Training Center for Sustainable
Development (CECADESU) of the Ministry of Environment in Mexico
(SEMARNAT).
Founding President and Director
of the North American Center for Environmental Information and
Communication (CICEANA). Founder of Bioplanet@, a network of
sustainable communities linked to an E-Commerce. Director and
producer of several national and international television programs
and series on environmental issues, including a five-part series
on the Biosphere 2 project. President of Friends of the Biosphere.
Science and Culture Counselor, Embassy of Mexico in India. Assistant
to Federico Fellini in Italy.
Participant at The World Summit
on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa 2002.
Participant at the Annual Symposiums of the InfoDev project
of the World Bank. Participant and lecturer of regional workshops
of Television Trust for the Environment. Participant at "The
Global Knowledge Conference - Kuala Lumpur, March 2000".
Special Advisor on Sustainable Development for the design and
content of the Mexican Pavillion at the Hannover Fair.
Received the UNEP Global 500 Roll
of Honor Award (1991) and the President's Award 2000 from the
North American Association for Environmental Education.
Member of the Latin American Communication
Network for the Environment TVE-UNEP, a member of the Mexican
Network of Environmental Educators. Editorial board member of
Green Futures (United Kingdom), fellow of the Twenty First Century
Trust and advisor to GreenCom (USA).
Studies in Biology, Film Direction
and Social Anthropology. Fully fluent in Spanish, English, and
German and is conversant in four other languages.
Also since January 2003, she is
the Coordinator of the Nationwide "Crusade for Forest and
Water", which has as its main objective to create awareness
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