Walter Lepore
Position
UNESCO Project Director
Walter Lepore is the Project Director for the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. Walter was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration, and a co-founder of the Salish Sea Training Hub, a formal partnership between the University of Victoria, the Victoria Foundation and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, which provides training in community-based research and Indigenous research methodologies. Before moving to Canada in 2010, he was an Associate Professor at the Division of Public Administration of Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico.
Since 2014, Walter has been working closely with the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education coordinating and co-leading global research projects and training programs. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Lepore acted as the Coordinator of the Knowledge for Change (K4C) Consortium, an initiative of the UNESCO Chair that offers participatory research courses through a global network of training hubs (Knowledge for Change Consortium for Training in Community-Based Participatory Research). In 2019, he started a two-year post-doctoral research project in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University. His postdoctoral research was focused on the complex relationships among political, social, economic and environmental issues affecting coastal communities, and how to promote cooperative management of ecosystems. From 2019 to 2021, he was an Associate Faculty in the Schools of Leadership Studies, and of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University.
Since 2014, Walter has been working closely with the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education coordinating and co-leading global research projects and training programs. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Lepore acted as the Coordinator of the Knowledge for Change (K4C) Consortium, an initiative of the UNESCO Chair that offers participatory research courses through a global network of training hubs (Knowledge for Change Consortium for Training in Community-Based Participatory Research). In 2019, he started a two-year post-doctoral research project in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University. His postdoctoral research was focused on the complex relationships among political, social, economic and environmental issues affecting coastal communities, and how to promote cooperative management of ecosystems. From 2019 to 2021, he was an Associate Faculty in the Schools of Leadership Studies, and of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University.