Team

Guillermo Castro Herrera, a Panamanian researcher and humanist, has been an Associate Academic Director of FCDS since 2000. His executive background includes positions as head of the Gorgas Commemorative Institute for Health Studies (1997­1999) and as Technical Secretary for the Panamanian Social Cabinet (1995­1997).

He has a master’s degree and a PhD in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is also a graduate from Universidad del Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, where he got a degree in Letters.

Dr. Castro is President of the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History, 2006­2010; a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Sustainable Development Center; associate researcher, "Justo Arosemena" Center for Latin American Studies, Panama; associate researcher, Political Ecology Workgroup, Latin American Council of Social Sciences; associate researcher, Hegemonies and Emancipations Workgroup, Latin American Council of Social Sciences.

Isabel Cristina Donato Miranda works for FCDS as a Project Manager in the Academic Department. She graduated in psychology from Santa María la Antigua University, and has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

Donato Miranda counseled young offenders as part of her professional practice in the Legal Psychology Department of the Legal Medicine Institute. She is an active member of the Panamanian Association of Psychologists, and is in charge of planning monthly educational workshops.