Fernando León Morales has 20 years of experience in senior management positions in the public and private sectors and in international cooperation. He is currently the director of the Sustainable Cocoa Supply Landscapes project in San Martin, financed by the Swiss Cooperation (SECO), and is a postgraduate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).

Dr. Lara is currently director of the University Transdisciplinary Center for Sustainability (Centrus) at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. He has been a full time professor-researcher at the Research Institute for Development with Equity (EQUIDE)and at the Department of Business Studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has academic publications in peer-reviewed journals on economic valuation of ecosystem services, mitigation and energy efficiency, water and poverty, transportation decisions, environmental behavior, and urban sprawl.