Eugenio Rengifo is a Political Scientist and Master in Public Policy; He has been an environmental agent in several causes: he was Development Director of Tompkins Conservation, Executive Director of the Elemental Reserves and Executive Director of Friends of the Parks, from where he worked to strengthen the protection of the national parks of Patagonia.

He is also an Eisenhower Fellow and member of the Steering Committee of the Lincoln Center for Large Landscape Conservation.