Leonardo Álvarez Romo

He studied in one of the most respectable military academys in the US: Fork Union Military Academy. Former congressman on two occasions, he started his political career in 1994 at the campaign of the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, along with the former Mexican Senator and former Presidential Candidate Armando Ríos Piter. After the assassination of Colosio, he worked in the environmental NGO that he founded and called CAMBIOS (Changes) and continued his studies in Political Sciences and Public Administration. Later on he was the personal assistance of the famous politician Manuel Camacho Solis, in the Center Democratic Party from 1997 to 2000.

In November 2000 he affiliated to the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. From 2000 to 2003 he was the political adviser of the green legislators in the Mexican Senate, and then adviser of the President of the Green Party of Mexico. Later on he was postulated by his Party as Congressman of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2003 to 2006. There he was President of the Special Commission for the Reform of the Nation, member of the Commissions of National Defense, Indigenous Affairs, Environmental Affairs, and Fishing Affairs. He reformed the Environmental Law to make the Army and the Navy of Mexico participate in the protection of the environment, also he left a profound study of the necessities of a Political Reform for Mexico. Then from 2006 to 2009 he was Congressman of the House of Representatives of Mexico City, 4th legislature Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal. There he was Leader of the Greens, President of the Commission of Environmental Affairs, and on several occasions Chairman and Vice-chairman of The House. He reformed the Law to create the Environmental Police, to prohibit the use of plastic bags in supermarkets and stores, and to create the Forest Firefighters. He worked in the Federal Government at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico, in National Parks CONANP, with the position of General Director in matters of Indigenous, Legislative and NGO's affairs.

Since 2004 he has been the Secretary of International Affairs of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. He was elected on three occasions President of the Federation of the Green Parties in the Americas (FPVA) Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas for the terms: 2009–2011 (Santiago, Chile), 2015-2017 (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) and 2021-2023 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).[1]