Roberto Chávez Arce

Committee Member, Board of Directors

Roberto Chávez Arce is an industrial engineer, partner of Gaxco Petrol de México and Arce Grupo Inmobiliario. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Pelagios Kakunjá, A.C. and the Quintana Roo Aquifer System Research Center, A.C (CINDAQ). He was founding president of the Advisory Council of the Revillagigedo Archipelago Biosphere Reserve. During his appointment, recognition of the Archipelago as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage of the Biosphere Reserve was achieved in 2016. At the end of his appointment and as a member of the Board of Directors of Pelagios Kakunjá A.C. he worked with multiple non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and the National Commission for Protected Natural Areas (CONANP) to expand the marine part of the Reserve, as well as the change of it to National Park, which made it the largest no-take marine reserve in Mexico and North America. Roberto was the owner of Pacífico Expediciones, Buceo Vallartech, partner of Italli Iluminación and TM Industrial. He is an experienced diver, from 1983 to date he has completed more than 2,500 dives and more than 500 hours of cave diving, he is also certified as a level 3 underwater archaeology diver by the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS). He has participated with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in underwater archaeology projects in Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo, as well as in exploration projects in caves and cenotes. He is the underwater photographer of the Hoyo Negro archaeological project.