Author: Jean-Luc Krieg

Born and raised in Côte d'Ivoire and of Swiss-German descent, is a social entrepreneur and minister focused on urban transformation. After earning a degree in Education in Switzerland, traveling across Latin America, and living in an urban poor neighborhood in Mexico City and Zurich’s redlight district, he moved to Philadelphia in 1997 to pursue graduate studies. In 2002, he earned an MBA in International Economic Development and a Master of Divinity. He was ordained as a minister and began working at Geneva Global Inc., a philanthropy corporation, where he supervised a team of researchers and served as Latin American coordinator and consultant for dozens of ministries and nonprofit organizations. In 2005, Jean-Luc moved back to Mexico City with a vision to help transform fragile cities into SHALOM cities. From 2006 to 2021, he founded and led Urban Mosaic, an organization focused on urban change in Mexico City and Barranquilla, Colombia. These organizations directly benefited over 50,000 local residents. Jean-Luc has learned from successes and failures, understanding the critical need for internal growth, agility, innovation, and reorientation. In 2022, he formed a strategic partnership with Noel Castellanos, and together they established Camino Alliance LATAM, based in Mexico City. He currently serves as the executive director of Camino Alliance. In this role, his focus is to come alongside others to create clusters for urban transformation in fragile cities, with the goal of seeing more of God's Shalom there.