Ana DI PANGRACIO

Ana Di Pangracio is a lawyer (University of Buenos Aires), specialized in environmental law (Argentine Catholic University) and with postgraduate studies in environmental management and policy (IIIEE, Lund University) and gender and law (University of Buenos Aires). She was granted an exchange scholarship by the “Linnaeus-Palme” Swedish Programme. Alumni of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the State Department of the US. She has over fifteen years ́ work experience on socio-environmental issues in civil society organisations and as a consultant. She is Biodiversity Director at Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2013 she is also its Deputy Director. She manages projects on participatory land-use planning, wetlands, native forests, protected and conserved areas, ecological restoration and biocultural corridors, environmental defenders and human rights-based approaches to conservation. She follows the global biodiversity and desertification negotiations. She is a member of the CBD Women's Caucus and takes part in the CBD Alliance. She was an elected member of the UNCCD CSO Panel for Latin America and the Caribbean (2022-2024), and she is an elected IUCN Councillor (2021-2025). She is a member of IUCN´s WCEL, CEESP and WCPA. She was Vice-President of the Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea (2016-2019). She was Coordinator of the IUCN Argentine National Committee (2015-2021) and President of the IUCN Regional South American Committee (2017-2019). She has been a lecturer at diverse public and private universities, and she has authored several articles on environmental law and policy.