Jorge Mario Caillaux Zazzali

Jorge Mario Caillaux Zazzali, founder and current President of the SPDA, was born in Lima and is a lawyer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). In the business field, he is a Director of the Drokasa Group and its subsidiaries Sociedad Agrícola Drokasa S.A. and Drokasa Perú S.A., among others.

He is also a member of the Institute of International Studies of the PUCP, Vice President of the Philharmonic Society of Lima and member of the Board of Directors of ProNaturaleza and Aquafondo. At the international level, he is an Honorary Member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) based in Bonn, Germany being its Vice President for South America from 1997 to 2004. He has chaired IUCN’s Governance and Audit and Finance Committees at several world congresses. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Climate Platform. He was President of the International Board of Directors of the Latin American Future Foundation (FFLA) based in Quito, Ecuador, from 2015 to 2011. He has also been one of the founding Directors of Avina Peru.

He has worked as a journalist and collaborator in several newspapers in the city of Lima, he has also been a guest professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lima and consultant to international financial institutions such as the Andean Commission of Nations, the IDB, the Andean Development Corporation, the IUCN and the World Bank and several international cooperation agencies both in Peru and abroad, actively participating in the design of environmental laws in Peru, Panama and Bolivia.

Since graduating in 1978 with his first thesis on environmental law from the PUCP, he has promoted environmental law from the SPDA and through research, publications and active participation in the design and approval of public policies and environmental legislation. In 1984-1985, he was president of the Multisectoral Commission created by the last government of Fernando Belaúnde, with the task of drafting the first draft of the Environmental and Natural Resources Code, which was finally enacted in 1990. He also served as ad hoc prosecutor to defend the state before the judiciary in a notorious forestry case involving the destruction of natural forests in the department of Madre de Dios, on the border with Brazil.

Caillaux has published several books on biodiversity and access to genetic resources, trade and the environment, as well as numerous essays and articles on various subjects related to politics, development, economics, trade and the environment, both in Peru and abroad.

He is currently the director of Sistema B International, based in Chile, and Vice president of Sistema B Peru, where he promotes the creation and development of B companies.