Ms. Juliana Chaves Chaparro (female) is a Senior International Consultant with extended expertise in Sustainable Development and Gender equality in Africa and LAC regions . She currently collaborating with LifeWatch ERIC as Biodiversity and Ecosystem services expert. Prior to this -from 2008-2020-, she has been project officer at UNESCO Head Quarters (Paris) and observer in the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Ms. Chaves-Chaparro is Spanish national and holds MSc Degree on Environmental Sciences, Diploma of Advance Studies in Sustainable Land use planning and a Master on STI policy formulation and evaluation. She is finalizing her PhD in Sociology with a thesis about " Responsible Science and Innovation for SDG´s in Sub-Saharan Africa". With more than 20 years of work experience, Ms. Chaves has worked in the science policy-society interface especially on the development of capacities for Science, Technology and Innovation (STIP) Policies and policy instruments to achieve SDG’s specially in Sub-Saharan Africa (+ 20 UNESCO Member states). She worked two years in the UNEP liaison office in Addis Ababa and the Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Center (Ethiopia). She has more than 15 years of international experience in the formulation, management and evaluation of EU-funded projects being the most recents two H2020 projects: Responsible Research and Innovation Networked Globally ( RRING) and Grounding RRI in Research public organizations (GRRIP).
Ms. Chaves is also coeditor and main author of a 2019 UNESCO publication entitled "Co-designing science in Africa: first steps in assessing the sustainability science approach from the ground" ( 250 pages) available here: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000368900.locale=en