Senior Gender Advisor for the United Nations Development Programme in Mexico 2004-2011, Director of Gender Equality and Environment in Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources 2001-2003. Consultant on gender and sustainable development for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other intenational development and environmental agencies. Itzá is a biologist with a master’s degree in Environment and Integrated Development. She also holds certificates in Environmental Problems from a Gender Perspective . Co-author of 30 publications