Omar Felipe Giraldo holds a PhD in Agrarian Sciences from the Autonomous University of Chapingo. His thesis was awarded the Arturo Fregoso Urbina Prize for the best doctoral thesis of 2013 and an honorable mention for the Jorge Alonso Prize for the best doctoral thesis in social sciences in Mexico, 2013, awarded by Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) and the University of Guadalajara. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and professor of sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, postgraduate professor at the National University of Costa Rica, and guest professor at the National University of Colombia. He has worked in the field of research in environmental thought, political ecology, post-development, and agroecology. He is currently a Conacyt researcher affiliated to El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) and is part of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. He is the author of numerous articles and the book Utopias in the age of survival. An interpretation of good living (2014) [Utopías en la era de la supervivencia. Una interpretación del Buen Vivir].