Mr. Alvaro Esteban Pop Ac
Chair of the 15th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - UNPFII
Mr. Alvaro Pop is the current Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He is founder and president of the Organismo Naleb', a civil institution in Guatemala that specialises in the analysis of the national budget, promoting debate and proposals on the reform of the state in multicultural societies and political participation of indigenous peoples. Mr. Pop was the head of the Indigenous Electoral Observation Mission in Guatemala in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011, as well as international election observer of the Organization of American States. He leads the political talk show with multicultural perspective in the TV Maya channel and is also a columnist and editor for different magazines and newspapers. Mr. Pop was a member of the National Commission for Constitutional Reform on Indigenous Peoples from 1996 to 1999. He also participated in the preparatory process of the Peace Accords and as an analyst of constitutional reform in