- Juan Carlos Navarro (businessman)
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Infobox Politician
name = Juan Carlos Navarro
caption =
birth_date = Birth date and age|1961|10|19|mf=y
birth_place =Panama City ,Panama
residence = Panama City
office = Mayor of Panama City
term_start = 1999-2004, 2004
term_end = 2009
predecessor = Mayin Correa
successor =
party = PRD
religion = Catholic
spouse = Cuqui Campagnani
children = 3
website = [http://www.juancarlosnavarro.com JuanCarlosNavarro.com]Juan Carlos Navarro (born
October 19 1961 ) is aPanama nian businessman, environmentalist, and politician and is the current Mayor ofPanama City ,Panama .Environmentalist life
He received his A.B. from
Dartmouth College (1983) and aMaster of Public Policy fromHarvard University (1985). He is one of the founders and former head of the National Association for the Conservation of Nature (ANCON), Panama’s leading non-profit environmental NGO, in 1985 and established it as the top independent environmental group in Panama and one of the most important inLatin America .Fact|date=December 2007He was elected to the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as Regional Councilor for Latin America in 1990, and was re-elected to that post in 1994, serving as the first Panamanian and the youngest member ever elected to the Council. Selected in 1998 as the first Inter-American Conservation Fellow by The Nature Conservancy’s Center for Compatible Economic Development, with the support of the MacArthur Foundation, Mr. Navarro was the first conservation leader from the
Caribbean , Latin America and thePacific Rim to be so honored.Fact|date=December 2007 In 1998, he authored the book Panama National Parks, which was published inMadrid ,Spain , and is the country’s first comprehensive text on national parks and nature reserves (currently in its second edition).Fact|date=December 2007Political life
He joined the PRD in April 1998 and was elected to the nine-member National Executive Committee, the PRD’s top governing organism, in August 2002. Mayor Navarro was awarded the International Award for Excellence in 2001 by the prestigious Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), in recognition of his global environmental leadership. Navarro is fluent in Spanish, French and English.
Juan Carlos Navarro was originally elected Mayor of Panama City for a five-year term (1999-2004) after winning his party’s primaries (October 1998) and the general election in May 1999. He was reelected for a five-year term (2004-2009) in May 2004. The youngest citizen elected to the Mayor’s office; Navarro oversees 5,000 municipal employees and a US$59.8 million annual budget (2005). He was elected unanimously as the first President of the National Mayor’s Association of Panama (2001) and reelected twice for the same position (2003, 2005). Mayor Navarro also served as co-President of the Unión de Ciudades Capitales de Iberoamericanas (UCCI) together with Mayor Alvarez del Manzano of Madrid, Spain (2002).
References
* [http://www.municipio.gob.pa/jcnalcalde.php Official Panama City Government page] es icon
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