MARIO ALBERTO REYES IBARRA
Mario Alberto Reyes Ibarra was born in April 1953 in the State of
Guanajuato, Mexico and graduated as a Topographic and Geodetic Engineer
from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1975.
During his professional life he has gone through several
responsibilities, having first joined CETENAL, the leading cartographic
organization of Mexico in the Department of Geodesy. After this, he held
during 6 years, up to 1995, the post of State Coordinator and Census
Coordinator for the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and
Informatics (INEGI) in the State of Guanajuato. After this he had the
responsibility to perform as Regional Director for the North Regional
Direction of INEGI from 1995 to 1997, and for the South-Central Regional
Direction up to 1999, when he was appointed as General Director of
Cadastral Cartography at INEGI, a post he held up to 2001, when he was
called to command the General Direction of Geography, where he has been
since then and to date.
Engineer Reyes has been also in the educative field from 1979 to 1988,
where he has been professor in the Faculty of Geography, at the
Autonomous University of the State of Mexico and also in the Civil,
Topographic and Geodetic Engineering Division of the Faculty of
Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Besides
this, he has been the organizer and lecturer at several national and
international congresses related to geography and statistics.
Engineer Reyes holds several posts associated to national and
international organisms, among them as National Representative in FIG,
ICA and ISPRS; he is the Vice-president for Cartography and Geography of
the National Mexican Section of the Pan American Institute of Geography
and History (PAIGH), President of the Editorial Committee for the IBCCA
project of the International Oceanographic Commission, and President of
the Permanent Committee of Spatial Data Infrastructures for the Americas
(CP IDEA)
He has published several books, among them as a co-author of the Spanish
version of the books on Modern Topographic Techniques, originally from
Banister and Raymond, and "Systems Applications" from John P. Grillo and
J.D. Robertson. He is the author of Notes on Applied Computing to
Topographic and Geodetic Engineering, published by UNAM, as well as of
the book on Errors Treatment in Topographic Surveying, published by
INEGI in 2002.
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