Jesús Carlos Soto Morfín

Director of Mobility and Transportation of the City of Guadalajara

Jesús Carlos is currently the Director of Mobility and Transportation for the Municipality of Guadalajara. Previously, he served as a Director of Mobility and Transportation for the Municipality of Zapopan between 2015 and 2021. Through his work, he has promoted strategies and projects for sustainable mobility and urban planning through the lenses of awareness building, combating climate crisis, and social justice, which contribute to creating just and more inclusive cities.  

Throughout his career, Jesús Carlos has promoted the agenda of sustainable mobility and quality of life in cities from different spheres, first from organized civil society, in which he participated as an activist in the Ciudad para Todos citizen collective since 2007, coordinated the X International Congress “Towards Car-Free Cities” in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2011, and was a member of the Citizen Observatory of Mobility and Public Transportation of Jalisco.