Dr. Gerardo Gold Bouchot
- Ph.D. in Marine Biology, Cinvestav de IPN Unidad Mérida, Yucatán, México
- M.S. in Chemical Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, U.S.A.
- B.S. in Oceanography, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Professor and researcher at the Centro de Ecología, Pesquerías y Oceanografía del Golfo de México, Area de Contaminación e Impacto Ambiental, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche.
Dr. Gold-Bouchot is the coordinator of the Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem Project, a United States–Mexico Project funded by GEF through the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The documentation for the second phase is being submitted to GEF. He is currently a member of the Advisory Group of the Gulf Research Program of the U.S. National Academy of Science, and of the Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of the Protection of the Marine Environment (GESAMP), and has also been a member of a number of other international groups of experts. He has been director of the Merida campus of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies, has published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals, and advised over 30 graduate students.