Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro (born 1948Education Without Borders:
Yolanda Kakabadse
''. URL retrieved 2011-01-24.) is an

Ecuadorian Ecuadorians ( es, ecuatorianos) are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are colle ...

conservationist of

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descent.

Biography

After studies in

Educational psychology Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in ...

at the University of Quito, she became involved in environmental issues. She was a founder of the Fundación Natura in Quito and was its executive director from 1979 to 1990. At the

Rio Earth Summit The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992. Earth Su ...

, she acted as

NGO A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

liaison. In 1993, she was a founder of the Fundación Futuro Latinoamerican
(www.ffla.net)
and served until 2006 as the executive president of this

. From August 1998 to January 2000, she served as Minister of Environment in the government of Ecuador. From 1996 to 2004, she was president of the

International Union for Conservation of Nature The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of nat ...

(IUCN)Hesselink, Frits; Čeřovský, Jan:
Learning to Change the Future
', IUCN 2008, p. 22. URL retrieved 2011-01-24. and from 2010 to 2017, she was president of the

World Wide Fund for Nature The World Wide Fund for Nature Inc. (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment. It was formerly named the Wor ...

(WWF).WWF:
Presidents past and present: Yolanda Kakabadse
'. URl retrieved 2011-01-24. She is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue. Yolanda Kakabadse is also a trustee of the

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...

TEEB The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) was a study led by Pavan Sukhdev from 2007 to 2011. It is an international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity. Its objective is to highlight the growing c ...

:
Yolanda Kakabadse
''. URl retrieved 2011-01-24. and was a board member of the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction from 2004 until 2013.LafargeHolcim Foundation:

'. URL retrieved 2020-06-02. Since 2017, Yolanda is the Chair of an International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN-led Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, th
Rio Doce Panel
created to advise the restoration efforts at the Rio Doce watershed in Brazil, following the

Mariana dam disaster The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near Mariana, Minas Gerais, Braz ...

, in 2015. Kakabadse is an

Earth Charter The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles considered useful by its supporters for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. Created by a global consultation process, ...

International Commission member.

References

1948 births Ecuadorian people of Georgian descent Living people Conservationists Presidents of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Members of the Inter-American Dialogue {{Ecuador-bio-stub