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Dr. Sergio Camacho is currently the Secretary General of the Regional Centre for Space Science and
Technology Education for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Centre is affiliated to the United Nations and has a Campus in Brazil and a Campus in Mexico.
Dr. Camacho is the former Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), a post that
he held from 2002 to 2007. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Camacho was Chief of the Space Applications Section of OOSA and United Nations Expert on Space Applications. From 1994 to 1999, he held the post of Chief, Committee
Services and Research Section of the Office for Outer Space Affairs. Previously, from 1983 to 1993, he was Programme Officer in the Space Applications Section of the Office. In his various capacities, Dr. Camacho
has worked in space-related capacity building for developing countries, the organization of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) and in the
implementation of the recommendations of the Conference. One of the highlights of the implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III has been the establishment in December of 2006 of a new programme within
OOSA, the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (SPIDER)"
Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr. Camacho carried out research at the Institute of Geophysics,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico where he worked on modeling of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Dr. Camacho received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in
the United States and his Bachelor's degree in physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.
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