Name: Gustavo Esteva Figueroa
Title: Elder
Organisation: Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca
Brief profile:
- Grassroots activist, independent writer and public intellectual
- Author of more than 40 books and many essays and articles
- Granted National Award of Economics and National Award of Journalism (Mexico)
- Columnist of La Jornada and occasionally in The Guardian
- Advisor of the Zapatistas in their negotiations with the government (1995-1996).