Ecologist from Universidad Javeriana de Colombia, Master in Rural Development from the same university and in Strategic Environmental Assessment from Oxford Brookes (United Kingdom). She is currently Manager of Sustainable Development at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Colombia, where she leads the strategy for biodiversity management, climate change, energy and environmental decontamination and innovative financing for environmental sustainability aligned with UNDP’s mandate to facilitate inclusive, resilient, equitable and multi-stakeholder sustainable development. In this role, it also contributes to Colombia’s vision of peace with nature with a focus on sustainable human development in the country’s highly biodiverse rural territories.

She supported UNDP’s environmental strategy in Peru and has been involved in regional projects in Latin America related to the Amazon agenda, biodiversity finance and environmental governance, among others. In addition, she has deepened her studies in tropical ecology and conservation at the Organization for Tropical Studies and has been an external advisor for the Masters in Management and Development Practice at the Universidad de los Andes, where she has also been invited to serve as a thesis juror for the Masters in Economics.

She began her career as a consultant on biodiversity management and conservation in rural areas at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, the Javeriana University and The Nature Conservancy. She has been director of the Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología. She began her career as a consultant on biodiversity management and conservation in rural areas at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, the Javeriana University and The Nature Conservancy. She has been director of the Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología. She was also an environmental policy advisor at the National Planning Department.