Professor Gilberto Sven Binnquist Cervantes is a Biologist from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus. He completed a specialty and a master's degree in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Girona, Spain. He has been a Professor at UAM Xochimilco Campus since 1991, teaching more than 65 courses in the undergraduate program in Biology corresponding to the following modules: Secondary Production; Biodiversity and Natural Resources; Community Analysis; Ecological Systems Analysis; and Environmental Analysis and Planning.

He is the author/co-author of more than 35 scientific and popular science articles, chapters, and books on environmental planning, land use planning, water management, ecotourism, and conservation of protected natural areas and their biodiversity. He has been Head of the research area: Management and Development of Terrestrial Renewable Natural Resources, Chairman and member of the CBS Review Commission, and recently Head of the Department: Man and his Environment, DCBS, UAM Xochimilco Campus.

He has been responsible for ten sponsored projects to carry out studies for the Canadian Wildlife Service, the Center for Ecodevelopment, the Center for Higher Studies in Tourism (CESTUR), the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI); the Secretariat of the Environment of the Federal District (SMA), the CDMX Heritage Zone Authority (AZP), the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Territorial Planning, and the Secretariat of Roads and Transportation of the Government of the State of Oaxaca. He has coordinated 18 tourism development programs at the regional and municipal level for the Integral Port Administration of Baja California Sur, the National Tourism Development Fund (FONATUR) and the governments of the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Morelos, Michoacán and Oaxaca. He has also been an evaluator of applications for the Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) for the evaluation of postgraduate scholarships abroad, as well as for INDESOL in projects related to environment, development and marginality.