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In addition to his intense activities at El Colegio de Mexico, Carlos Echarri participated in multiple ways in other national and international institutions.
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These accomplishments allowed him to reach one of the highest levels in the Mexican National Research System: Researcher Level III.
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In his different roles at El Colegio de México, Carlos Echarri was recognized as an extremely bright person with a holistic vision of population issues, one that allowed him to be in continuous dialogue with policy makers, sharing with his colleagues and students his vision of demographic knowledge for the benefit of society. In addition, he coordinated the Reproductive Health and Society program, led the Academic Group on Reproduction of Population and Health, and was a member of the Advisory Board and Teachers Committee for the Masters in “Gender, Political Processes and Cultural Transformations” of the International Program of Women Studies. He also served as the academic coordinator of the Masters in Demography program and of the Doctorate Degree program in Population Studies. He started his academic career, after completing his doctoral studies in Belgium, at El Colegio de Mexico, where, up to the end of November of last year, he was a Professor-Researcher at the Center of Demographics, Urban and Environment Studies (Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales). After completing his Master’s degree he worked as a Research Associate at the General Family Planning Department (Dirección General de Planificación Familiar) of the Ministry of Public Health in Mexico. The employment trajectory of our dear Carlos was very broad. He was an “exemplary civil servant who pushed forward various initiatives to benefit Mexican citizens and advance the Human Rights and Liberties agenda with regard to population policies”. Despite the short period that he spent working at CONAPO, Carlos Echarri left an indelible mark. When friends and former professors of that university learned of his passing, they remembered that “his doctoral thesis was brilliantly defended, addressing a theme little studied at that time: Family, woman status and infant health in Mexico”.Ĭonsidered as one of the most distinguished Mexican demographers, Carlos Echarri was appointed head of the Mexican National Council of Population (Consejo Nacional de Población-CONAPO) on December 4 of last year, an event that filled his colleagues and the entire demographic community in Mexico with pride. He studied for a Bachelor in Actuarial Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), began his training in population studies in 1985 when he entered the Masters program in Demography at El Colegio de Mexico, and received a PhD in 1994 from the Institut de Démographie of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Our colleague and friend was born in 1964. We share below a tribute to Carlos by his colleagues.Ī few days ago, the unexpected death of Carlos Echarri touched the Mexican and international community of population scholars. As his colleagues attest below, Carlos was a very active, respected, and beloved researcher who disappeared at the height of his career. He joined the IUSSP in 1991 and most recently served as an organizer for the 2017 International Population Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The IUSSP is saddened to announce the sudden and untimely death of IUSSP member Carlos Javier Echarri Canovas, head of the Mexican National Council of Population (CONAPO).