Alfredo Ortega-Rubio. Ph.D. with specialty in Ecology is currently a titular researcher at the Northwest Centre for Biological Research in Mexico. He has received three national awards from the President of the Mexican Republic for his career in scientific research, with a Socio-Ecological perspective, applied to biodiversity conservation in Natural Protected Areas. He has published 194 original research articles, 21 books and 99 book chapters. He has led 175 very large projects on resource management, ecological restoration and environmental impact assessment, including those required to create the Sierra de La Laguna, Vizcaíno Desert and Revillagigedo Archipelago, Biosphere Reserves. He has directed a total of 63 postgraduate thesis, including 35 Ph.D. and 28 Master in Sciences. He has been awarded with the international INTERCIENCIA Prize in Biodiversity Conservation on the American Continent in 2007. He was also awarded the Prize for Scientific Research in the State of Baja California Sur. Since 2004 he has been Researcher "E", the top Researcher level at the CONACYT Research Centres system.