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Field: Geo-science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Satellite Image
Processing, and Technical Cooperation Project Management
Competence: Water Resources Management, and Natural Disaster Risk Management
Pablo González is the
Chief for Natural Hazard Risk Reduction (NHRR) with the Department of
Sustainable Development (DSD) of the General Secretariat of the Organization
of American States. He was appointed to the position, in October of 2006, as
the result of an external vacancy competition. He is also co-chair of the
recently established Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation (INDM).
He first joined the
DSD in December of 1991, working as a GIS Specialist for the Natural Hazard
Project. From 1991 and until 1995, he organized and presented several
workshops in the use and application of GIS, and assisted with the
implementation of GIS in various DSD projects. During that period, he also
assisted with the coordination of technical cooperation projects located in
Central America and the Dominican Republic: the Watershed Management
National Plans of Honduras and the Dominican Republic, and the La
Amistad International Park Conservation Plan, in Costa Rica and Panama.
In 1995, he temporarily left the OAS, although he continued supporting the
Department’s activities from the academic field. In 1997, he returned to
join the DSD, supporting the execution of several GEF-IW projects in major
transboundary water systems in the Americas: the Integrated Water
Resource Management and Sustainable Development of the San Juan River Basin
and its Coastal Zone (Costa Rica and Nicaragua,) known as
PROCUENCA-SAN JUAN;
the Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of the
GUARANI Aquifer System (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay;)
and the Framework Program for the Sustainable Management of the Water
Resources of the
la Plata Basin with respect to the Effects of Climate Variability and
Change (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.) In addition,
he supported the operation of the Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN)
Technical Secretariat, and advised in the design and development of
information systems for decision-making on natural resources management,
including database and ICT and GIS design and implementation.
Born in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Pablo González holds a degree in Land Surveying Engineering and a
post-graduate degree in Geodetic & Geophysics Engineering from the
Universidad de Buenos Aires. He also holds a Masters degree in
International Development and GIS from Clark University, in Massachusetts.
He has participated as moderator and speaker in several international
events, such as the Second GEF-IW Biennial Conference, and the Third World
Water Forum. He is a recipient of the GS/OAS Outstanding Performance Award
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