Autor: Xavier Manteca

Francisco Galindo is a Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He obtained a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the same University (1990) and later a Ph D in Animal Behaviour and Welfare (Cambridge, UK, 1996). In 1995 he was appointed as Head of the Department of Ethology at UNAM and since then started teaching Animal Behaviour and Welfare to undergraduate and graduate students. He has supervised several graduate thesis on areas related to Applied Ethology, Animal Welfare, Sustainability and Conservation. He has been Coordinator of the Animal Welfare Committee of the National Animal Health Council in Mexico, as well as Programme Coordinator for the Latin American office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Through this work he contributed to the elaboration of Animal Welfare Legislation in Mexico and in other Latin American countries. He is Coordinator of the WOAH Collaborating Centre on Animal Welfare and Sustainable Livestock Systems. He has a strong interest in the integration of animal welfare and sustainability, and has published more than 80 scientific papers on those topics. He is co-editor of Etología Aplicada, one of the first publications of the topic in Spanish, and of Animal Welfare 3rd edition.