Eugene Zapata Garesche is the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program's regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean starting August 2016. He was born in Mexico City and studied international relations at the National University of Mexico, the London School of Economics and the University of Paris-Sorbonne. For over two decades he has specialized in the international relations of local governments, particularly as senior international adviser to the mayor of Mexico City, North American regional secretary of Metropolis and coordinator of the AL-LAs project.