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María de los Dolores Aguilar Marmolejo

Director, Inter-American Children's Institute

María de los Dolores Aguilar Marmolejo: Mexican by birth (1966) is professor in basic education. She has Superior Studies in Philosophy, at the University La Salle Mexico (1988-1992).

She has a Master degree in Organization at Development; a certificate in Public Administration and a Master degree as a Familiar Orientation Consultant in the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain (2004), with a work research, named "Towards a familiar perspective of the community into the public policies by means of the National System for the Integral Development of the family."

She has a wide experience as a teacher where she has been outstanding in several subjects as well as in the coordination of departmental zones in privet universities: Universidad Anáhuac and Universidad Tecnológica de México in Mexico city. She is un outstanding instructor in workshops and school work advisor counseling. She is Speaker in Family subjects: Infancy, Health, Education, Politics, Development Organization, Self improvement, among others.

Since 1984 she is active member of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) political organization where she has been candidate to several positions of election at a local level. From 1997 to 2000 she has been substitute deputy at the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, first Legislature.

Since march 2001 she has been working for the National System of The Integral Development of the Family, institution that concerns itself with of Childhood in Mexico. She has been an Advisor of the General Direction, sub director of the Unity of Attention to the Vulnerable Population and she has been General Director of Childhood Protection, where she is working now days.

Her participation in the design of "Diagnosis of the Mexican Family" has been outstanding and has been the basis to analyze, design and apply public policies for the family (2003-2005) which describes the family institutions as the center and basis of the State in Mexico.

During her performance as General Director, her labor has been centered mainly to carry out programs of social assistance for the federal government, social policies and public administration related with subjects of childhood, adolescence and family in a local level as well as in a regional level, directing programs of national importance: Prevention of risks in Adolescent Pregnancy, Integral Attention of Children, Eradication of the child labor and the Sexual Exploitation of children for commercial purposes : Prevention and Attention to girls; Homeless Children and Teenagers, the program is called "From the street to the life," and Children's Rights.

Her labor has been notable because of the promotion of several projects. Among them have been: "indicators of Welfare in the early childhood" and "Certification of Capacities", destined to make social assistance more professional and efficient with the governors of the federal entities, with the implementation of systems of continuity and evaluation of the convention of the Rights of Children. She has developed and promoted the proposal of a familiar and community point of view as a center of the Social Policy. This strategy wants to position childhood and adolescence as a subject that has rights and as a promoter of his development, and the family as a subject with responsibilities.

She is currently Director General of the Inter-American Children's Institute, Specialized Organization of the OAS, which, through its Directing Council composed of government representatives of the 34 Member States, adopted at its 82nd Regular Meeting, the proposed Action Plan for the period 2007- 2011 on subjects as Birth Registration and Right to Identity, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Child Abduction, Violence, Youth Criminal Justice, Child Participation, among others.