Walter A. Pengue is an Agricultural Engineer specialized in Improvement of Plant Genetics (Plant Breeding), at the University of Buenos Aires and a Masters degree from the same University in Environmental and Territorial Policies.  He is also Doctor in Agro-Ecology, Rural Sociology and Sustainable Development by the University of Córdoba, European Union (Spain). Since May 2009 he is a scientific member at the IPSRM International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management),UNEP, United Nations.

He is a founding member of the Argentine/Uruguayan Association of Ecological Economics (ASAUEE), as well as of the Ibero- American Network of Ecological Economics (REDIBEE), the International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE), the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) and other International Associations such as ASAE and CSAE.

He leads the Ecological Area of the Metropolitan Institute at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires.

He is Director of the Postgraduate Specialization on Ecological Economics, FADU, at the University of Buenos Aires as well as Full Professor of the Group on Landscape Ecology and the Environment, GEPAMA (www.gepama.com.ar/pengue), Faculty of Architecture, University of Buenos Aires.

He is responsible for the Area of Ecological Economics and Sustainable Agriculture, as well as a member of the Steering Committee of the Argentine Institute for Economic Development.

He is the author of numerous books and book chapters dealing with the impact of new technologies on agriculture, sustainable models of agricultural development and production alternatives. He is a consultant for different public and private entities as well as International Organizations on matters such as Agricultural Production, Markets, Supportive Economy and Association.

He is Professor of the following National Universities: Buenos Aires, General Sarmiento, La Matanza, Rosario, La Pampa and Cochabamba as well as other private and international universities, teaching Ecological Economics, Agroecology and Rural Development in Masters and PhD seminars and courses.

His last two books, Cultivos Transgénicos, Hacia donde vamos? (Transgenic Crops, ¿Where are we going?) (UNESCO, 2000) and Agricultura Industrial (Industrial Agriculture…) (UNEP, 2005), are very well known by agronomists, researchers and people involved in the issue over whole South America. In 2008 wrote The appropriation and scarcity of Nature and in 2009, Fundamentals of Ecological Economics (Fundamentos de Economía Ecológica, Kaicron Editorial).

He has been Scientific Director of the Workshop ‘Los Agrocombustibles en la Argentina’ (Biofuels in Argentina), December 2007, which can be found on www.iade.org.ar, and has been used by IADE, GEPAMA and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

He is partner responsabile of international projects supported by European Union (SUPPORT, CEECEC), United Nations UNEP (IPSRM) and others at the national level.