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Speaker Biographies Dr. Mac Chapin Chief Technical advisor of the Map Mac Chapin is an anthropologist who has spent most of his career working with the indigenous peoples of Central America. He was the co-founder (with Bill Threlkeld) of the Center for the Support of Native Lands, which has pioneered the use of participatory mapping of indigenous lands in the region. Native Lands worked with the National Geographic Society in 1992 to produce a poster-size bilingual Spanish-English map titled "The Co-existence of Indigenous Peoples and the Natural Environment in Central America." This was the first map to be done showing the relationship between indigenous peoples and forest cover in the region. Then in 2002, Native Lands again collaborated with National Geographic to produce an update of the 1992 map, with an expansion of the Maya region into Mexico and the inclusion of marine ecosystems; this map was titled "Indigenous Peoples and Natural Ecosystems in Central America and southern Mexico." Chapin is serving as technical advisor for the current map, which is in turn an update of the 2002 map, with the inclusion of protected areas. He is the author, with Bill Threlkeld, of two guidebooks on participatory mapping ("Indigenous Landscapes: A Study in Ethnocartography" and "Mapping Indigenous Lands"), and has written numerous articles dealing with indigenous issues in Central America. Francisco Ramiro Batzin Executive Director, Asociación Sotz´il Guatemala Ramiro Batzin, Mayan Kaqchikel, is currently the Executive Director of the Association Sotz'il, Guatemalan indigenous organization. He has a Master in Environmental Management (Local Pensum Cerrado) and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences. Professional Journalist of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) also has a diploma in Environmental Assessment Projects, Strategies and Conservation Techniques; a diploma in Indigenous Law and one on Legislative Management. His professional career has allowed him to make the formulation of the Central American indigenous environmental agenda; the revision of the Central American policy on climate change and the drawing up of the indigenous chapter; the formulation of the report on climate change and traditional knowledge in Guatemala; the review of the R-PP Guatemala and Honduras, development of indigenous proposals; and the development of indigenous proposals incorporated in the policy and climate change law in Guatemala. He has participated in several World Conferences on Climate Change (COP-15, COP16, COP17, COP18 COP-20) has been a speaker at national and international events on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples; as well as events on REDD+ safeguards. He has also been a speaker on the topic of Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other related to protected areas. Ramiro Batzin has been a member of the National Council on Climate Change in Guatemala, Indigenous representative; member of the Indigenous Bureau on Climate Change; member of the International Indigenous Forum on Climate Change and Global Coordinator of Indigenous Biodiversity Forum IIFB. Jesús Amadeo Martínez Guzmán President of the Central American Indigenous Council Jesús Amadeo Martínez Guzmán, native of the Lenca people of El Salvador, has a Bachelor's degree in Law, is President of the Salvadoran Indigenous Movement (MAIS), which belongs to the Salvadoran National Indigenous Coordinating Council (CCNIS). He is currently the President of the Indigenous Council of Central America (CICA) and is part of the board of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, FI. His work has focused on strengthening the identity of indigenous peoples and the vindication of the rights of indigenous peoples, where they have analyzed different issues affecting indigenous peoples. Currently maintains coordination with indigenous networks in the region, which has allowed him to participate in the Global Committee of COP 22; and in turn, the co-chair for the COP 22 to be held in Morocco. Amadeo Jesús Martínez also coordinates with the different structures of the indigenous peoples of the region, in order to agree on a single position as latinoamercan indigenous peoples of the region. From a young age, he became involved in student and social movements in El Salvador, as well as the processes of indigenous peoples after the Peace Accords in El Salvador. Dr. Grethel Aguilar Regional Director, IUCN Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Grethel Aguilar is currently the Regional Director of the Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network. She is a Costa Rican lawyer, specialist in international law. She studied Environmental Law in the University of Alicante (Spain), where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Legal Tools for Biodiversity Management and the traditional knowledge associated in Native Territories, graduating “summa cum laude” as Doctor in Law. Between 1992 and 2004, she worked in various regional and international agencies on issues related to environmental law, water, environmental management, biodiversity and rights of local communities and Indigenous People. Among other tasks, she has been a consultant for the United Nations Environmental Program, Water International Association, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Inter American Development Bank, the World Bank and several governments, such as Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico and others in Latin America. In the academic world, she has been a professor in the University of Costa Rica, the Latin American University of Science and Technology, the Centro Agronómico de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIEAgronomic Center of Research and Teaching), and a visiting professor in the University of Durban (South Africa), the Metropolitan Autonomous University of México, the University of Kuwait and the Syracuse University in the United States of America. She is the author of several important publications. The most recent ones are a Handbook of Environmental Law in Central America (2009), the book “In Search of an Equitable Distribution of the Biodiversity Benefits and the Native Knowledge” (2005) and “Governance of Shared Waters” (2009). She is currently working as Regional Director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in the Mesoamerica and the Caribbean an organization that influences, encourages and assists societies, throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and people.