Daniel Ramírez Cortés

Daniel Ramírez Cortés joins the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy at Stanford from Serterra, a consulting startup he co-founded to design environmental public policy and sustainable urban planning tools across Mexico. In this role, he leverages GIS modeling and data-driven governance to deliver municipal growth strategies that strengthen local institutions. Parallel to his public sector consulting, his tech-sector experience in San Francisco involved scaling over a hundred enterprises across Latin America, gaining entrepreneurial B2B insights while examining how international policy can foster private-sector innovation. 

Beyond consulting, Daniel has led civic campaigns for the protection of natural resources, threatened lacustrine ecosystems, and fundamental human rights, earning the Michoacán Youth Award for his political activism. As a TED speaker, he has brought these grassroots perspectives to the OAS, the U.S. Congress, the European Union, and both the Mexican and Spanish Senates. This trajectory across business, environmental advocacy, and civic representation shapes his approach to complex governance challenges, building on his foundation as a summa cum laude Environmental Science graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).