Ms Angela ANDRADE PEREZ

Chair CEM, Conservation International- Colombia

Chair of the Ecosystem Management Commission of IUCN since 2016 additionally she chairs the climate change task force in the IUCN Council.  She serves as Director of Climate Change and Biodiversity Policy at Conservation International in Colombia, since 2009. Previously, she served as Director of Ecosystems of the Ministry of the Environment and Deputy Director of Geography of the Agustín Codazzí Geographical Institute in Colombia. She is an Anthropologist from the Universidad de los Andes, specialized in Geography and Rural Surveys and a Msc in Land Ecology, from ITC in the Netherlands. She has more than 25 years of experience in research in Territorial ecology, social development, and environmental policies. In recent years she has dedicated herself to promoting at a global level the issues of Adaptation based on Ecosystems and Solutions based on Nature in response to the crisis of biodiversity and climate change, among others.