Edgar Mora Altamirano is a Costa Rican journalist and politician.

Between 2007 and 2018, he was Mayor of the city of Curridabat, where he led land use planning, urban planning and social development projects in vulnerable communities. He was the head of an innovative project launched in 2015 aiming to turn his city into a more inclusive, innovative, and environmentally friendly place to live. Therefore, Edgar Mora used a holistic, biophilic, and eco-centric approach of urban planning that led the city to recognize pollinators, specifically native bees, as central to the city’s urban design and wellbeing.

Subsequently, the city of 75,000 inhabitants, received the Wellbeing Cities Award in 2020.

Edgar Mora also served as Minister of Public Education from 2018 to 2019.