COLFUTURO Yearbook Selection 2026

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Adriana Carolina Cortés Cardona Senior Executive, Sustainable Territorial Development Department CAF—Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean COLFUTURO 2010 recipient. Master’s degree in Environment and Resource Management from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - IVM (Netherlands), with a certificate in Advanced Studies from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain, affiliated with the UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainability Research Group) and a degree in environmental engineering from Universidad de los Andes. Carlos Andrés Ríos Uribe Associate Professor, School of Education Universidad de Antioquia COLFUTURO recipient, 2004. Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Oregon State University (United States) and a civil engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Javier García González Head of the National Laboratory for Quarantine Treatments Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) COLFUTURO 2010 Recipient. Ph.D. in Science with a focus on Entomology and M.S. in Science from the University of São Paulo . Agricultural Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. María Adelaida Farah Quijano Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom); M.A. in Rural Development and a degree in economics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Mónica Sanz Galindo Ph.D. in Environmental Management and Development from the Université d’Orléans (in partnership with Aix-Marseille Université and the Université de Franche-Comté , France) and a biologist from Universidad de los Andes. SELECTION YEARBOOK 2026 35