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Professional profile of the General Director and profiles of area managers and office heads.​

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Dora Inés Rey Martínez

General Director (E) and Technical Director of Property Planning and Land Market

Professional Agrologist, PhD candidate in Geography, Master in Business Administration (MBA), Specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with studies in river basins, territorial prospective and regional planning. 

She has extensive experience in the public sector associated with planning, formulation of guidelines, monitoring and evaluation of policies on issues of distribution, subdivision, concentration, access and regularization of land tenure, rural land market, planning and territorial management, agricultural planning, rural development and land use planning. With extensive knowledge and experience in spatial data infrastructure, geographic, cartographic, agrological and land register information management.  
 
Teacher of geographic information management issues and rural planning issues. Author, coordinator, editor and co-author of various publications on these topics. 

She holds the position of Technical Director of Property Planning and Land Market at UPRA. 
 
Salary scale: In accordance with the current salary assignment decree.   ​

doraines.rey@upra.gov.co 

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Emiro José Díaz Leal

Planning Advisory Office

Geographical Engineer with a specialization in Planning and Administration of Regional Development, in Comprehensive Project Management and a Master's degree in Environmental Management. NTGP 1000 2009 BVQI Auditor and HSEQ-ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 SGS Auditor, 17 years of experience in project management, public budget, territorial development and national investment project bank. 

Salary scale: In accordance with the current salary assignment decree.

emiro.diaz@upra.gov.co 

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Alexander Rodríguez Romero

Technical Director of Efficient Land Use and Land Adaptation


Master in Economic Sciences and economist from the National University of Colombia, with over 18 years of professional experience in the agricultural sector, particularly in the technical and strategic leadership of projects related to information analysis applied to rural contexts.

Skills in strategic prioritization, structuring, and management of projects related to agricultural rural planning, monitoring and evaluation of sectoral public policies; in the methodological and operational design of projects to collect data that impacts the economic, social, and environmental development of rural communities, and in data processing and information analysis, ensuring the achievement of objectives and deadlines.

Leadership of multidisciplinary teams in topics such as characterization of agricultural productive chains, market functioning for agricultural, livestock, fisheries, and aquaculture products, market information systems; efficient use of rural land for agricultural purposes and land adaptation planning, as well as formulation of public policy guidelines and criteria in these areas.

In the academic field, he has worked as a lecturer at various Colombian universities, in areas such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics, and economic situation.

His technical and pedagogical experience has enabled him to train professionals with a high level of competence in economic analysis and evidence-based decision making.

Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree.

alexander.rodriguez@upra.gov.co​


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Adriana Pérez Orozco

Technical Advisor

Master's in Planning and Management of Sustainable Territorial Habitat from La Gran Colombia University, with a thesis awarded Cum Laudem distinction, focusing on the analysis of the peasant subject's situation in protected areas from the perspective of environmental justice and a rights-based approach. 

She has extensive experience in the agricultural and environmental sectors, with over 20 years of work in the public sector. Her emphasis has been on coordinating, leading, and managing territorial planning processes, rural and environmental planning, guiding initiatives for biodiversity conservation and protected areas, and developing processes of consultation and collaboration with ethnic communities and rural peasant communities. 
 
Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree.​

adriana.perez@upra.gov.co​

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Juan Carlos López Gómez

General Secretary

Lawyer, specialist in Senior Management and Business Law, and master's in Commercial Law. With experience in building national legal defense strategies, as well as in the development of public policies, international cooperation agreements, and regulatory projects. 

He has worked in various fields, including as a litigation lawyer, consultant, advisor, teacher, and executive in private companies and public entities. 

Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree.​

juan.lopez@upra.gov.co

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Sandra Milena Ruano Reyes

Internal Control Advisory Office

Business Administrator from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Specialist in International Relations, Specialist in Labor Law and Industrial Relations from Universidad Externado de Colombia, Master's degree in Management from Universidad del Rosario and managerial postgraduate degree in Strategic Implementation from the University of Pittsburgh. NTCGP auditor: 1000-MECI, certified by Icontec (Colombian Institute of Technical Standards) International.

She has held the position of Administrative Director in the area of ​​human resources within the private sector. She has experience in public management: she was an advisor to the General Directorate of National Public Budget, advisor to the Office of Internal Control and participated as leading auditor in internal quality audits at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.​

Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree.  

sandra.ruano@upra.gov.co 

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Luz Mery Gómez Contreras

Head of ICT Office

Land Register and Geodetic Engineer from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Specialist in Geographic Information Systems from the same university, Master's degree in Geography with an emphasis on Territorial Planning from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and the “Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC)” (Geographical Institute), PhD in Geography by UPTC-IGAC agreement.
 
She works in the Government sector, as leader of the Statistical and Spatial Information Analysis group at the Rural Agricultural Planning Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; she worked in the Center for Research and Development in Geographical Information of the IGAC. She is a professor in the SIG specialization program at Universidad Distrital and at the Master's program in Information Management and Geospatial Technologies at Universidad Sergio Arboleda.

Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree. ​

luzmery.gomez@upra.gov.co 

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Juan Hernando Velasco Lozano

Legal Advisor
Lawyer, specialist in Environmental Law with master's studies in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory. He is a conciliator in Law and an amicable composer, with training in land governance with gender equity and a differential approach. He has over ten years of experience in the agricultural sector, handling issues related to the Social Ordering of Rural Property, the Land Market, patrimonial fiscal assets, transfer of assets from liquidated entities, monitoring and evaluation of public policy, among others. Additionally, he has extensive experience in criminal litigation and advisory in Disciplinary Law.​
 
Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree.

juan.velasco@upra.gov.co


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Mónica Cortés Pulido

Communications Advisor

Social Communicator and Journalist from Universidad Los Libertadores with a specialization in Public Opinion and Political Marketing from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She won the Simón Bolívar Award in Journalism for Best Coverage of a News Story on Television.
 
She held the position of Communications Advisor at Banco Agrario de Colombia and at the Ombudsman's office of Bogotá, Press Officer at the Mayor's Office of Bogotá and reporter for Public Order and Bogotá at RCN TV News. She has extensive experience in advising on strategic communications to senior executives and officials of public and private entities, as well as candidates for the Senate of the Republic and Bogotá Council; instructor in training programs for spokespersons and media management and facilitator in workshops crisis management.

Salary scale: According to the current salary assignment decree.  ​

monica.cortes@upra.gov.co 

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