Institution/Organization: National University of the South

Email Address: sili.marcelo@gmail.com

Committee(s): Collaborator

Marcelo Sili is a geographer and specialist in rural & territorial development. He works in public policies, rural and territorial development, land use and environment policy, and local and regional strategic and economic development planning in Latin American countries. He holds a Phd in Rural Development at Université Toulouse (France), his postdoctorate degree at INRA (France). Actually, he is a Senior Researcher at the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina). Titular Professor and Director of the Center for Territorial Development (ADETER), Universidad Nacional del Sur. International consultant in local and regional development projects. Published 15 books and more than 40 scientific articles among them several Atlas (Rural spaces in Argentina, rural spaces in Ecuador, Municipalities in Paraguay), studies on the problems of rural development in Latin America and recently on problems of territorial governance, and development paradigms and models in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He has coordinated more than 60 local and regional development projects in Latin America for local and national governments, and for the international agencies (IFAD, World Bank, JICA, IADB, IICA).