Dr. Carlos Patiño-Gómez received the PhD and Post-PhD from the Environmental and Civil Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the deputy coordinator of integrated water management department and coordinator of climate change group in the Mexican Institute of Water Technology. He has participated as leader of research projects related with water planning and management in transboundary river basins between Mexico and the United States of America, and leader of research projects related with water planning and management in the Mexican hydrological river basins. Actually, Dr. Patiño is the Mexican National Contact Point in Environmental and Climate Change appointed by the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico, and belongs to the National Researchers System in Mexico. Also, he is full professor at the Universidad de la Americas Puebla, working on water management, biodiversity and climate change projects.