Dr. Antonio J. Díaz-de-León-Corral
- Ecology
- Fisheries
- Natural and Man-Made Hazard Mitigation
- Environmental Science
- Coastal Development
- Ecological Indicators
- Overfishing and Bycatch
- Sustainable Development
- Geographic Information Science (GIS)
- Modeling
- Networking and Communications Research
- Decision, Risk and Management Science
- Economics
- Geography
- Law and Social Sciences
- Political Science
- Ph.D. in Resource Assessment & Management, Imperial College of London, England, 1993
- DIC Centre for Environmental Technology, 1993
- M.S. in Marine Biology, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Unidad Mérida (CINVESTAV), México, 1989
- Diploma in Applied Statistics, Instituto de Investigación en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas (UNAM), México, 1984
- B.S. in Oceanography, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California en Ensenada, México, 1983
Antonio J. Díaz-de-León-Corral was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Married, he has two daughters and lives in Mexico City.
Regional Coordinator of the Project "Integrated Management of the Large Marine Ecosystem of the Humboldt Current" (GEF/UNIDO) developed jointly with the governments of Peru and Chile. 2002-2003.
Researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Ecología (INE)and commissioned to the Colegio de México (with leave from the Mexican Government), he is also an Invited Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV del IPN), the Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR del IPN), the Universidad Iberoamericana (Campus Centro-Golfo), the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas UNAM, and at the Facultad de Economía UNAM. Dr. Díaz-de-León-Corral is also an International Consultant on environment, development, oceans and fisheries, and a Senior Partner of the Marine Resources Assessment Group Ltd. (MRAG London). He has also been the President of the Instituto Nacional de la Pesca, from January 1995 up to January 2001, in the former Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca (SEMARNAP), now Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (SAGARPA).
He has had 28 years of experience in fisheries since he joined the Instituto Nacional de la Pesca in 1973 as a technical assistant. He has participated in the making of multilateral and national research in process on large marine ecosystems in the eastern central Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California; and the reduction of by-catch with shrimp trawl nets with the FAO, with funds from GEF for up to 50 million USD.
During his time as President of the Instituto Nacional de la Pesca, he designed and made the new version of the "Carta Nacional Pesquera 2000" (National Fisheries Letter, 2000), the only public integrated regulation instrument today, published on August 17 and 28 of the year 2000, in the Federal Official Diary and presented to the nation by the then President of México.