René Caro Gómez

General Director of Territorial Management, State of Jalisco, Mexico

René is currently the General Director of Territorial Management, State of Jalisco, Mexico, responsible for planning and implementing strategic projects for the  Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works, Ministry of Environmental and Territorial Development, and the Ministry of Transport and Integrated Water Management.

Previously René served as the General Director of Architecture and Urbanism for the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works in the Government of Jalisco where he lead development of strategic projects such as the rehabilitation of urban forests in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara. Before that, he served as a Project Director at the Public Space Authority in Mexico City developing restoration projects of public spaces and shared streets within the city’s historic center.

René is an architecture graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a Master’s in Architecture: Projects and Criticism from the Catalan Polytechnic University in Barcelona, Spain.