Relief co-ordination, protection and support services

Research Associate at the Katastrophenforschungsstelle (Disaster Research Unit), Freie Unverstität Berlin. Consultant and researcher on Urban Disaster Risk Governance. PhD in Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), MSc. in Urban Management at Technische Universität Berlin (TU-Berlin), and Designer at Universidad Católica de Temuco (UC-Temuco), Chile. Founder and Editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies on Disaster Risk Reduction REDER (https://www.revistareder.com)

We are advising German NGOs, Foundations and Local Authorities on DEVCO-Funding Instruments and -Procedures

Political scientist with a Master of Arts International Relations/Political Science from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Graduate Institute) in Switzerland. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in "Human Rights and Democratisation Processes" from the Human Rights Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile in association with the ICTJ - International Centre for Transitional Justice.

She was born in Bogotá, Colombia and completed her university studies in Geneva, Switzerland where she lived and worked for fifteen years. Her professional work has focused on international cooperation (programme and projects management, NGO director); research on related issues; and advocacy for peace, development and human rights. She worked at the Delegation of the European Union in Colombia as Cooperation Officer for Human Rights and Focal Point for Children and Armed Conflict for nine years, and presently I is an independant senior consultant on international cooperation, human rights and peacebuilding.