Nicaraguan by profession Industrial Engineer with Masters in Business Administration and Management, also studies in Project Management, Territorial Economic Development, Total Quality, Business Logistics, International Trade and Business Extensionism; with 20 years of experience in socio-economic development in rural and urban communities, specifically in the topics of the agro-industrial cooperative sector, small and medium-sized urban and rural enterprises, development of supply chains in value chains, mainstreaming the following approaches to community economic development: (i) microfinance, (ii) gender equity, (iii) climate change and (iv) food security.