Architect and Urban Planner, Specialist in Water Resources Management, and holds a Masters in Planning and Urban Design, and Environmental Sustainability (ABD), she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Geography Department at Brasilia University. Liliana is an Independent researcher, trained mediator, and facilitator interested in conflict prevention over natural resources, especially in a transboundary context. She is the Global Climate Policy Coordinator at Brazils Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. Experienced professional in Environmental Sanitation and Regional Planning, Water Resources, Environmental Planning and Conservation, Environmental Licensing, and Professional Training, holding 30 years of teaching experience, 20 of them in higher education working as a lecturer at Architecture and Urban Planning Courses. Working in NGOs, in the private sector since the ’90s, she got into Federal Government in 2004 as a public servant and consultant in bodies such as Ibama and the Ministries of Environment, Ministry of Cities, and Ministry of the Regional Development; she contributed to the structuring of ReCESA and the Federal Environmental Licensing Center in São Paulo, and as deputy chief staff at the Biodiversity Secretariat has participated and conducted several projects. Former Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the SPURS/MIT and a visiting scholar at SPA/CUDenver developed voluntary activities at CRWA and Roxbury College and graciously translated educational material for several MOOCs offered by institutions such as CSF, ELI, and UNEP. A volunteer member of several institutions, former Co-chair of the EnPAX Interest Group on Water and editor of its Monthly Newsletter; former Coordinator of the climate justice cluster of the Latin American Observatory for Climate Action (OLAC); Manager of the Technical Chamber of the Global Agendas at IAUB. Other groups she participates in are the MBBI, the Climate Leadership Corps, the WATERLAT network, the MIT Alumni for Climate Action, and the 9th World Water Forum Groups.
