Gilberto Rincón González founder and current director of CEID-Colombia - Center of studies for sustainable development, has broad experience, working for more than 20 years as senior legal counsel for multinational oil companies . He was a Member of theColombian delegation to negotiate the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol cop 6 in The Hague Holland. President of the Colombian Environmental Bar Association and its permanent delegate to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development-CSD, in New York.

Gilberto is a lawyer specialized in Environmental Law at the Rosario University and has a MBA of the IESE –Navarra University in Spain and a degree in Comparative Law from the University of Texas At Dallas. Gilberto is currently responsible for implementing in Colombia the program of the United States Environmental Protection agency-EPA, on Environmental law, Enforcement and Compliance and has translated to Spanish and published with the Rosario University the Lester Brown’s books Plan B 2.0 and Plan B 3.0

During the last four years, Gilberto has been involved in teaching and research activities, with special emphasis in Climate law, Enforcement and Compliance and Multilateral Environmental agreements.