Ph.D in Geography. Department of Geography, Boston University (2005).
Dissertation: Decision making for reducing vulnerability given new
climate predictions: Case studies from Metro Boston and Rural Zimbabwe.
Masters in Community Planning and Development. Edmund S. Muskie School
of Public Service, University of Southern Maine (1999).
Civil and Hydraulic Engineering degrees (six-year program). Universidad
Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (1995).
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre.
Associate director of programs. July 2007 to present.
Technical advisor. July 2005 to June 2007.
Oxfam America.
Climate change advisor, Private Sector Team. July 2007 to present.
Project: Microinsurance for climate change adaptation in Ethiopia.
World Food Programme (WFP).
Consultant, Policy, Planning and Strategy Division. June to July 2008.
Project: A participatory learning approach to weather insurance
for small-holder farmers
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Consultant, Rehabilitation and Humanitarian Policies Unit.
February to March 2008.
Project: Expert meeting on climate change and disaster risk
management.
ProVention Consortium.
Consultant. December 2007 to March 2008.
Project: Climate adaptation, development and disaster risk
reduction in the Caribbean region.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Consultant, Adaptation, Technology and Science Programme. August to
September 2007.
Project: Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability and
adaptation to climate change.
World Bank, Infrastructure and Environment Unit.
Consultant, Development Economics Research Group. July 2005 to June
2007.
Project: Institutions for Adaptation to Climate Change.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Video production consultant, Sub-Regional Office Trinidad & Tobago.
January to May 2007.
Project: DIPECHO VI videos on climate change .
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Potsdam, Germany.
Communications consultant. March to December 2006.
Project: Use of Video Tools for Disaster Management and Climate
Change Adaptation.
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Consultant, Environment and Water Department. August to October 2006.
Project: Climate Risks of DGIS Portfolio in Bolivia.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada).
Consultant, Rural Poverty and Environment program. August to September
2006.
Project: Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Research and
Capacity Development (CCAA).
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
Consultant. September to December 2005.
Project: Development and Adaptation Days at COP-11.
International Society for Environmental Protection (ISEP) / UNEP.
Consultant, UNEP/GEF Coordination Office (ISEP contract). November 2002
to January 2003.
Project: UNEP GEF-IW:LEARN Best Practices.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Consultant, Division of Early Warning and Assessment. July to September
2002.
Project: Inter-American Water Resources Managers Forum.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Consultant, International Directorate. February to April 2002.
Project: Ecosystem dynamics and essential human needs: Developing
a multidisciplinary research agenda for the Plata River Basin.
GEF International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network
(IW:LEARN).
Facilitator, Inter-American Water Resource Managers Forum. Foz do
Iguaçu, Brazil, July to September 2001.
Maine State Planning Office. Augusta, Maine.
Planning and Research Associate, Floodplain Management Program. March
to August 1999.
Project: Integration of hazard management into the comprehensive
planning process for Maine communities.
INCOBYP Engineering Consultants. La Plata, Argentina
Project Manager. September 1996 to August 1997 and May to August 1998;
entry-level engineer. February to August 1996.
Projects included: Analysis of the stormwater system of San Isidro
Municipality: Diagnosis and proposals; as well as design of
several drainage systems.
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Laxenburg, Austria.
Research Scholar, Risk and Vulnerability program, February 2006 to
present.
Project: Risk financing
schemes for climate
adaptation.
Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the
Longer-Range Future. Boston, MA.
Visting fellow, May 2008 to
present.
Project: The future of humanitarian
organizations.
Boston University, Department of Geography and Environment. Boston, MA.
Visiting Scholar, June 2005 to present.
Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean
(CATHALAC).
Senior Research Associate, April 2005 to present.
Project: Climate change adaptation and capacity building.
Boston University, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Boston,
MA.
Research Assistant, September 2002 to April 2005.
Project: Testing the ability of subsistence farmers to use
seasonal climate forecasts: A participatory approach in Zimbabwe.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Laxenburg, Austria.
Visitor, July-August 2002.
Project: Risk, Modeling and Society.
Boston University, Department of Geography. Boston, MA.
Research Assistant, August 1999 to August 2002.
Project: Climate's Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston.
MIT, Center for Environmental Initiatives. Cambridge, MA
Research Affiliate, August 1998 to May 1999.
Project: The Hidrovía Navigation Project as a tool for
Sustainable Development.
Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. Portland, ME.
Graduate Assistant, August 1997 to May 1999.
Project: Economic impact of protecting Maine coastal islands.
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, School of Medical Science. La Plata,
Argentina.
Research Associate, August 1995 to February 1996.
Project: Creation of Formal and Non-Formal Educational Spaces for
AIDS and Substance Abuse Prevention.
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Suarez, P., Ching, F., Ziervogel, G., Lemaire, I., Turnquest, D.,
Mendler de Suarez, J., and Wisner, B. (in print). Video-mediated
approaches for community-level climate adaptation.In print atIDS Bulletin.
Suarez, P., Saunders, G., Mendler, S., Lemaire, I., Karol, J. and
Curtis, L. (in print). Climate related disasters: Humanitarian
challenges and design opportunities. In print at Places.
Karol, J. and Suarez, P. (2007). Adaptación al cambio
climático, estructuras fractales y trampas discursivas: De la
construcción del objeto a la construcción de la
acción. Medio Ambiente y Urbanización 67: 25-44.
Patt, A. G., Suarez, P. and Gwata, C. (2005). Effects of seasonal
climate forecasts and participatory workshops among subsistence farmers
in Zimbabwe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
102 (35): 12623-12628. [pdf]
Suarez, P., Anderson, W.A., Mahal, V. and Lakshmanan, T. R. (2005).
Assessing the impacts of flooding and climate change on urban
transportation: A systemwide approach for the Boston Metro Area. Transportation
Research Part D: Transport and Environment 10 (3): 231-244.
Suarez, P. and Patt, A. G. (2004). Cognition, caution and credibility:
The risks of climate forecast application. Risk, Decision and Policy
9 (1): 75-89.
Suarez, P. (2001). Climate change, flood risk and property values: an
assessment of vulnerability and equity in the Boston Metro Area. Journal
of Science and Faith Exchange 5 (1): 125-144.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Suarez, P., Ribot, J. and Patt, A.G. (in print). Climate information,
equity and vulnerability reduction. In: Ruth, M. and Ibarraran, M. E.
(eds). Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts
and Cases. Edward Elger: Cheltenham, UK.
Patt, A.G., Daze, A. and Suarez, P. (in print). Gender and climate
change vulnerability: what's the problem, what's the solution? In:
Ruth, M. and Ibarraran, M. E. (eds). Distributional Impacts of
Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases. Edward Elger:
Cheltenham, UK.
TECHNICAL REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS
Suarez, P., Givah, P., Storey, K. and Lotsch, A. (2008). HIV/AIDS,
climate change and disaster management: Challenges for institutions in
Malawi. Policy Research Working Paper 4634. World Bank: Washington DC.
Tadross, M., Suarez, P., Lotsch, A., Hachigonta, S., Mdoka, M.,
Unganai, L., Lucio, F. Kamdonyo, D. and Muchinda, M. (2007). Changes in
growing-season rainfall characteristics and downscaled scenarios of
change over southern Africa: Implications for growing maize. IPCC
Regional Expert Meeting on Regional Impacts, Adaptation, Vulnerability,
and Mitigation, Nadi, Fiji, June 20-22 2007, p. 193-204.
Suarez, P., Linnerooth-Bayer, J. and Mechler, R. (2007). Feasibility of
risk financing schemes for climate adaptation: The case of Malawi.
Report prepared for the World Bank Development Economics Research
Group. IIASA: Laxenburg (Austria).
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre (2007). Red Cross / Red
Crescent Climate Guide. Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies. (Contributing author).
Hellmuth, M. E., Moorhead, A., Thomson, M. C. and Williams, J. (eds.)
(2007). Climate Risk Management in Africa: Learning from Practice.
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). New
York: Columbia University. (Contributing author).
Gonzales Iwanciw, J. and Suarez, P. (2007). DGIS Climate Risk Project:
An analysis of the Dutch cooperation portfolio in Bolivia. Report
prepared for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS).
Suarez, P. (2005). Mozambican Red Cross Climate Change Program. Mission
report prepared for the Red Cross / Red Crescent Centre on Climate
Change and Disaster Preparedness.
Suarez, P. (2004). Reducing vulnerability to climate variability and
change: Cognitive and behavioral obstacles to rational use of
information. In: Applied Research Grants for Disaster Reduction – A
Compendium of Project Reports. Hazard Management Unit, The World Bank.
Suarez, P. (2003). International Waters Best Practices Database:
Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Future Interactive Sessions.
Prepared for United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNEP/GEF
Coordination Office.
Kirshen, P., Wilson, C., Suarez, P., Knee, K., Ruth, M., Anderson, W.
and Lakshmanan, T. R. (2003). Integrated Impacts of Climate
Change-Induced Sea Level Rise in Metro Boston and Adaptation
Strategies. In: Bizier, P. and DeBarry, P. (eds), Proceedings of the
World Water and Environmental Resources Congress held in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, June 24-26, 2003.
Suarez, P. (2002). GEF-IW-LAC Electronic Forum and the Inter-American
Water Resource Managers Forum: A Post-Activity Process Report. Prepared
for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division of Early
Warning and Assessment.
Ratchford, M., Bromley, L. and Suarez, P. (2002). Science for
sustainable development: Developing a multidisciplinary research agenda
in the Plata basin. In: Proceedings of the First International
Symposium on Transboundary Waters Management. Monterrey, Mexico,
November 2002.
Suarez, P. and Sklarew, D. (2002). Transboundary Waters Management:
Perspectives from Latin America and Caribbean Managers. In: Proceedings
of the First International Symposium on Transboundary Waters
Management. Monterrey, Mexico, November 2002.
Suarez, P. (2002). Urbanization, Climate Change and Flood Risk:
Addressing the Fractal Nature of Differential Vulnerability. Proceedings of the Second Annual IIASA-DPRI
Meeting - Integrated Risk Management: Megacity Vulnerability and
Resilience. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Laxenburg, Austria, July 2002.
Anderson, W. P., Lakshmanan, T. R. and Suarez, P. (2001). Assessing the
Economic Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Surface Transportation in
the Boston Metropolitan Area. Interim report for Climate's Long Term
Impacts in Metropolitan Boston (CLIMB) project.
Suarez, P. (2000). Hazard Mitigation. In "Comprehensive Planning: A
Manual for Maine's Communities". State Planning Office. Augusta, Maine.
Suarez, P. (1996). La Conquista del Título Universitario. pp
247-254. Proceedings of the First Argentine Congress of Engineering
Education. Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Córdoba.
FILM
The Global Climate is Changing the Caribbean (2007).
Series of four videos and six TV spots on disaster management in the
context of climate change in Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, the Cayman
Islands and St.Kitts & Nevis. Directed by P. Suarez; produced by
the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre (with support from DIPECHO).
Sudestada (2006). 20-minute documentary about the work of
the Argentinean Red Cross in the flood-prone shantytown of Monte
Matadero. Directed by F. Benavídez and A. Santoro; co-produced
by P. Suarez and R. Klein (with support from PIK).
GLOBALL
- Common Goals in a Changing Climate (2005). Short
experimental video that shares the voices of Argentinean shantytown
dwellers and Mozambican and Bangladeshi farmers and teachers. Climate
change seriously threatens these communities united in the ubiquity of
soccer. Directed by F. Benavídez and A. Santoro; co-produced by
P. Suarez, S. Taylor and Benavídez-Santoro.
El Zanjón (2004). Short documentary about a
participatory workshop on flooding and climate change in a shantytown
in the Buenos Aires Metro Area. Directed by F. Benavídez and A.
Santoro; produced by P. Suarez.
PEER REVIEWS
Manuscripts (ad hoc): Journal of Environmental Management
Disasters
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC)
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Grant proposals (ad hoc): International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA
National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT),
Panama
National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology (ANPCYT),
Argentina.
GRANTS
AND FELLOWSHIPS
United Nations Institute for Training and Researc (UNITAR) and
partners.
2006 Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA).
Audiovisual tools for climate change adaptation: Bridging the Malawi
Red Cross and Meteorological Service.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - Program on Applied Economics.
2004 Risk and Development Field Research Grant.
Reducing Climate Vulnerability for Development: Modeling Present Bias
in rural Zimbabwe and periurban Argentina.
ProVention Consortium (World Bank and Partners)
2003 Applied Research Grant for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - Program on Applied Economics.
2003 Risk and Development Field Research Grant.
Reducing Climate Vulnerability for Development: Cognitive and
behavioral obstacles to rational use of information.
Global Environment Facility - International Waters Learning Exchange
and Resource Network.
2003 International Waters Fellow for Latin America and the Caribbean.
University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service
1998 Board of Trustees Scholarship.
Cooperative of Educators for Democratic Initiatives (CIID)
1992 Scolarship "Valorizzazione Linguistica e Culturale Italiana".
SELECTED
PRESENTATIONS
"The Red Cross work in a changing climate: Challenges and
opportunities". Series of seminars offered at the Red Cross National
Societies of Argentina, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi,
Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe, as well as meetings of IFRC
sub-regional delegations for the Caribbean (Port of Spain), Central
America (San Salvador) and East Africa (Mombasa).
"Audiovisual tools for climate policy: Focus on community adaptation".
Seminar at the Stockholm Environment Institute. October 13, 2006.
Stockholm, Sweden.
"Climate change, Disaster preparedness and the future of the Cayman
Islands". Presentation to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Cayman
Islands. July 25, 2006. George Town, Grand Cayman.
"Can a design from La Plata save lives in Africa? Climate change and
early warning systems". Seminar at the Department of Industrial Design,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata. July 1, 2006. La Plata, Argentina.
"Why exclude risk reduction from weather insurance? Integrating ENSO
forecasts in the Malawi pilot scheme". Seminar at the International
Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth Institute. June
14, 2006. Palisades NY, USA.
"Audiovisual Tools for Community-Level Adaptation: Towards a decision
research agenda". Seminar at the Center for Research on Environmental
Decisions (CRED), University of Columbia. June 13, 2006. New York, USA.
"Oxfam's work in a changing climate: Challenges and opportunities".
Seminar at Oxfam Great Britain. May 17, 2006. Oxford, UK.
"Oxfam's work in a changing climate: Challenges and opportunities".
Seminar at Oxfam America's Board meeting. February 10, 2006. Washington
DC, USA.
"Reversed mainstreaming? Climate change and time preference in
community disaster management". Development & Adaptation Days at
COP 11. December 3, 2005. Montreal, Canada.
"Video Tools for Community-Level Disaster Risk Reduction: Developing
Awareness and Training Through Audiovisual Media". Fifth Annual
IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Innovations in
Science and Policy. September 14-18, 2005. Beijing, China.
"Using audiovisual media for awareness, advocacy and action in climate
adaptation: Case studies from Argentina, Mozambique and Zimbabwe".
Second International Work Conference on Climate Change and Disaster
Risk Reduction. June 21-24, 2005. The Hague, The Netherlands.
"Reducing vulnerability with new climate predictions: A development
agenda". Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. April
26, 2005. Brighton, England.
"Community-level adaptation in developing countries: Lessons from
Argentina, Mozambique and Zimbabwe". International Workshop on
Community-Level Adaptation to Climate Change. January 16-18, 2005.
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
“El Zanjón: The use of film and audiovisual media for
climate adaptation in the South". Development and Adaptation Days at
COP 10. December 11-12, 2004. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"Expanding the role of climate predictions in disaster preparedness".
Cranfield Mine Action and Disaster Management Centre, Cranfield
University. October 20, 2004. Cranfield, England.
"Bridging scientific research and community dynamics through
information: Lessons from the South". Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR). Aug 31, 2004. Pretoria, South Africa.
"From the climate model to the Argentine shantytown: Rethinking the
role of forecasts among marginalized communities". Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research (PIK). June 15, 2004. Potsdam, Germany.
"Community-based vulnerability reduction: Using climate information to
trigger participatory adaptive processes". International Research
Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI), Earth Institute. April 29,
2004. Palisades NY, USA.
"The GEF International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network".
Second Water Fair of Central America and the Caribbean. November 26,
2003. Panama City, Panama.
"IW:LEARN y las herramientas de información y
comunicación del GEF". Taller sobre Sistemas de
Información y Gestión, Proyecto DELTAMÉRICA. July
22-23, 2003. Brasilia, Brasil.
"Getting our climate news on the News: Lessons from the media". Seventh
Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF 7). September
1-4, 2003. Lusaka, Zambia.
"How can our science address their exclusion problems? Climate
information, economics and vulnerability". 53rd Pugwash Conference:
Advancing Human Security - The Role of Technology and Politics. July
15-17, 2003. Halifax, Canada.
"Climate information as a neoclassical approach to risk? Addressing the
root causes of vulnerability" (with J. Ribot). Third Annual DPRI-IIASA
Meeting: Integrated Disaster Risk Management - Coping with Regional
Vulnerability. July 3-5, 2003. Kyoto, Japan.
"Global discourses and local environmental change: Rethinking
infrastructure projects". Latin American Studies Association 2003
International Congress: The Global and The Local - Rethinking Area
Studies. March 27-29, 2003. Dallas TX.
"Spaces of domination, places of control: An exploration of power in
Abelardo Castillo's "Patrón" and its adaptation to film" (with
C. Schulze). Cine-Lit V: International Conference on Hispanic Film and
Fiction. February 28, 2003, Portland OR.
"Synergies between mitigation and adaptation to climate change in
cities" (with M. Ruth, P. Kirshen, W. Anderson, T. R. Lakshmanan, A.
Amato, K. Knee, D. Gute, and J. Horowitz). Special Symposium on Cities
in Transition: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation.
Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. February 13-18, 2003. Denver, CO.
"Errors of omission and commission: The risks of climate forecast
application" (with Tony Patt). 45th Annual Meeting of the African
Studies Association: Africa in the Information and Technology Age.
December 5-8, 2002. Washington DC.
"Transboundary waters management: Perspectives from Latin America and
Caribbean managers" (with Dann Sklarew). First International Symposium
on Transboundary Waters Management. November 2002. Monterrey, Mexico.
"Seasonal forecasts, agriculture and food security: A users'
perspective". Sixth Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum
(SARCOF 6). September 4-6, 2002. Harare, Zimbabwe.
"Climate change as a security issue? Poverty, vulnerability and the
unrecognized manifestations of conflict". 52nd Pugwash Conference on
Science and World Affairs - Science, Security, Sustainability. August
9-14, 2002. University of California San Diego.
"Urbanization, climate change and flood risk: Addressing the fractal
nature of differential vulnerability". Second Annual IIASA-DPRI Meeting
- Integrated Risk Management: Megacity Vulnerability and Resilience.
July 30, 2002. Laxenburg, Austria.
"Regional development projects, human needs and the capitalization of
nature". American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 Annual Meeting - Symposium on Wildlife and Wild Land Conservation
in the Americas. February 17, 2002. Boston MA.
"Climate change, regional development and equity: A look at the
Hidrovía Navigation Project in South America". ISODARCO Summer
Course - Global Climate Change and Impact on Natural Resources. June 20
to 29, 2001. Candriai (Trento), Italy.
"Climate change, flood risk and property value: Assessment of
vulnerability and equity in Boston". Boston Theological Institute -
Second Annual Science and Religion Colloquium. April 26, 2001. Boston
MA.
"Water, climate variability and environmental justice". Worcester
Polytechnic Institute - Student Pugwash Regional Conference on
Resources and Multinational Corporations. March 30 to April 1, 2001.
Worcester MA.
"Global Forces and Water management in Argentina". 'The Other Side of
Globalization' Symposium. November 19, 1997. University of Southern
Maine, Portland ME.
"La conquista del título universitario". First Argentine
Congress of Engineering Education. October 7 to 11, 1996. Rio Cuarto,
Argentina.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
School of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, March 1990 to
February 1996.
Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
Calculus IV and V
Analytic Geometry
Structures I and II
Hydraulic Projects
Legal Engineering
LANGUAGES
Fluent written and oral communication:
Spanish (first language)
Italian (mother tongue)
English
Working knowledge:
French
Portuguese
ADDITIONAL
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Participatory Video. Insight. Oxford (UK), October - November 2006.
Regional Science. School of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad
Nacional de La Plata. Completed three semesters of the Carrera de
Especialización de Postgrado en Ciencias del Territorio.
February 1996 to July 1997.
Environmental Effects of Public and Private Assignment of Resources.
Centro de Estudios Bonaerense. La Plata, September 1995.
Environmental Pathology and Science. Universitá dei Studi di
Siena, Italy, and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. August
and September 1995.
Environmental Education for Sustainable Development. UNESCO School for
Sustainable Development. La Plata, November 1994.
Introduction to University Teaching. Universidad Nacional de La Plata,
August 1994.
Environmental Impact Assessment. UNESCO and the Latin American School
of Environmental Sciences. La Plata, September 1994.
Environmental Hydrology. School of Natural Sciences, Universidad
Nacional de La Plata, 1993.
Waves, Particles, and the Structure of Matter. Harvard University, 1988.
EXTRA-ACADEMIC
ACTIVITIES
Pro bono advisor on climate change, Oxfam America (private sector
team). July 2006 to June 2007.
Member of the organizing committee of the United Nations Association
Film Festival – Boston. April 2005 to March 2007.
Member of the Board of Directors of International
Student / Young Pugwash, student affiliate of the Pugwash
Conferences on Science and World Affairs (recipients of the 1995 Nobel
Peace Prize). April 2003 to September 2004.
Member of the Board of Directors of Student Pugwash USA. October 2001 to October 2003.
President, Boston University Student Pugwash, September 1999 to January
2003.
Vice-President, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service Student
Organization. 1998-1999.
Co-Editor of the literary publication "La Roca". La Plata, January 1995
to March 1996. Director of the cultural publication "Moebius". La
Plata, April 1993 to March 1994.
Member of the Department of Mathematics Advisory Council, Universidad
Nacional de La Plata. June 1994 to October 1995.
Secretary of Culture of the School of Engineering Student Organization,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata. November 1993 to October 1994.
Tenor Sax in The Al Capone Blues Band (1994). Studies of flute
at Conservatorio Provincial Gilardo Gilardi, 1984-1988, and member of
the choirs Saengerfest
(2004 to present), Agrupación Coral Antares (1989-1995) and Coro
Juvenil de la Universidad de La Plata (1985-1989).
Countries visited: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,
Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil,
Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El
Salvador, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco,
Mozambique,
Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay, Senegal, St.
Kitts
& Nevis, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Pablo Suarez
Department of Geography and Environment
Boston University
675 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215
tel: +1 (508) 358-5204
cel: +1 (617) 783-3046
e-mail: suarez@bu.edu