Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Anthropology at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and member of the Political Ecology Working Group at the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO), the environmental NGO Grupo Semillas and FIAN Colombia, an organization that advocates for the right to food. She has worked on seed conflicts due to the expansion of GM crops and intellectual property rights as well as on grassroots alternatives based on agroecology and food and seed sovereignty in Colombia. Her current research focuses on socio-environmental conflicts linked to payments for ecosystems services, particularly carbon markets and REDD+ programs in the Colombian Amazon. She integrates political ecology perspectives and environmental ethics into her research. Laura Gutiérrez’s main research area is in Colombia.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia

Maximilian Benner is an economist and economic geographer with a habilitation degree (venia docendi) in human geography. As senior scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Vienna and non-tenured associate professor (“Privatdozent”) at the University of Klagenfurt, he focuses on innovation-based regional development and its impacts in terms of environmental sustainability, social justice, and inclusiveness. Empirically, he is particularly interested in regions hosting emission-intensive industries such as the chemical industry.

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PhD candidate in the artec Sustainability Research Center in University of Bremen, Germany. Currently working within the Humboldt Tipping Project (WP7). She is interested in the political ecology of coastal activities (fisheries along the value chain) within extractive landscapes. She works on coastal-marine resource governance, and its consequences on gendered power dynamics happening in socioecological conflicts, with a focus on everyday resistance and socioenvironmental justice. Throughout the last years, her work has been based on small-scale fisheries communities in coastal Ecuador and Peru, and slowly been developing in the direction of her home-region, Galicia, Spain.

Country/Region of interest/research focus:coastal Peru, coastal Ecuador, Galicia (Spain)

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{:en}Claudia Horn completed her Ph.D. in International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book manuscript, The Environment for Finance. How International Projects Shape Land and Rights in the Brazilian Amazon, is under revision and projected for publication in 2026. It critically examines G7 environmental aid to Brazil’s Amazon and the building and local contestations of institutional and technological structures for green economies, including carbon markets. Her upcoming book examines Rosa Luxemburg’s ecological critique of capitalism. She also holds two master’s degrees in sociology from the New School for Social Research and the Technical University of Dresden, and her interdisciplinary research links international environmental politics, agrarian studies, and development studies. Between 2018 and 2023, Claudia Horn researched based in Belém, Pará, Brazil, where she also worked for the city government.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Brazil, Mexico

Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens in order to identify local and international strategies of resistance, resilience, and survival; and gender-transformative pathways towards climate and nuclear justice. Before focussing on nuclear justice, she has worked on the role of collective landownership in crisis transformation (Dissertation at Leuphana University, Lüneburg), on the protection of human rights defenders and on gender in energy transition.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Oceania, Philippines

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Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She supports executives, teams, non-profit organizations, start-ups, and public administrations that promote an equitable organizational culture and strive for a better future for people and the planet. Additionally, she is engaged in research and lectures on the topic of intersectional feminism and gender in climate adaptation strategies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany

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