Diego Alejandro Riaño Herrera is an Environmental Engineer and Master’s student in Sustainable Agricultural Sciences with more than four years of experience in territorial, institutional, and community-based projects. His professional trajectory combines applied research, university teaching, project management, and entrepreneurship, with a strong focus on sustainable agriculture and socio-environmental resilience. He has led and supported initiatives in agro-territorial planning, environmental resilience, and sustainability, emphasizing stakeholder engagement, community education, and territorial development with an environmental perspective. His expertise includes research on soil management and sustainable agroecosystems, the design of agro-productive models, identification of persistent pollutants, organizational sustainability consulting, and the coordination of institutional and community training projects. Andrés is particularly interested in integrating bioeconomy, circular economy (CE), nature-based solutions (NbS), sustainability indicators, and project management methodologies to strengthen public policies and farming communities. His work is grounded in social appropriation of knowledge, process innovation, and Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) frameworks.