Gina Cortes Valderrama

Gina Cortés Valderrama, Colombia is passionate about contributing to the enhancement of resilient communities in developing countries based on a human-rights approach. Currently focuses on gender and climate change policy. She is an environmental engineer from El Bosque University in Bogotá, Colombia and M.Sc. in Sustainable Resource Management from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), with additional studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She has received awards and distinctions such as the scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Germany and distinction for the best collaborative project in innovation of Tsinghua University, China