Alejandra Calleros-Islas

Alejandra Calleros-Islas graduated as an Economist. She has a Master's degree in Sustainability with a specialty in policy design and evaluation from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. She wrote her PhD on integrated assessment tools at the UPC, where she developed and tested a methodology to evaluate performance of agroecosystems to support the transition towards organic farming in Mexico. She is an expert in the field of sustainability with over 12 years of experience in research and project development and evaluation, both in European and Latin American contexts. She has taught the "Sustainability: Challenges and Responses" course at IES Barcelona since 2018 and the Global Pillars course "Designing the Sustainable City" since the Spring 2022 pilot. Her interests include the Circular Economy, the Nexus -food, energy, water- approach, biomimicry, and socio-agroecosystems. What she likes the most about her professional field is its flexible, transversal, and multidisciplinary nature, so everyone has a part to play. IES course taught: ES352 Sustainability: Challenges and Responses; ES/SO360 Designing the Sustainable City.