Dr. Lina María Bastidas Orrego holds a PhD in Strategies for Regional Agricultural Development from the Postgraduate College of Mexico. She is an Administrative Engineer and holds a Master's degree in Systems Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her research interests include strategic planning, rural development, entrepreneurship, and systems modeling. She has research experience in financial planning, prospective scenarios, systems dynamics, and socio-environmental conflicts. She is a research professor at the Corporación Universitaria Remington - Faculty of Business Sciences and an active member of the Organizational World research group. She is a Junior Researcher, categorized by the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Minciencias).