CEO of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) (Costa Rica)

Villalobos has more than 35 years’ experience in the fields of agriculture, natural resources and genetics. He has been a teacher, researcher, research director, both an international and governmental civil servant, an administrator, negotiator and leader of multi-disciplinary analysis and decision groups. As a researcher, Villalobos sparked the development of agricultural biotechnology in Mexico and the rest of the world. In Mexico, ).Villalobos was deputy secretary of Natural Resources and deputy secretary of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Fisheries (SAGARPA [Mexico]