Antonia Lorenzo

Málaga

Antonia Lorenzo is Bachelor of Agricultural Chemistry and specialist in Environmental Engineering and Technology, and currently doing her PhD in Economic evaluation of the use of reclaimed water in agriculture at the University of Córdoba, Spain. Antonia is founder, CEO and R&D director atBIOAZUL. She has worked for 20 years in the management and implementation of more than 60 national and international projects, mainly related to blue infrastructures for the sustainable water management – treatment, water reuse, ecological sanitation, nature-based solutions – as well as circular economy and resources sustainability. She works for the European Commission as an expert and evaluator in several of its programs and has specialized in aspects related to intellectual protection and exploitation. Since 2018 Antonia leads the Working Group of Water Europe on Water and Agrifood. Antonia is member of the Spanish Management Committee of the Circular City COST Action and also an active member of the Spanish “Nature-based solution Cluster” established in the city of Málaga in 2018. She is also a mentor for the EIT Food Accelerator Network, and has recently been selected as a mentor in the European Commission’s “EIC Women Leadership Program”. EIC beneficiaries, specifically: businesswomen in managerial positions, who wish to strengthen their skills and expand their network; Female researchers involved in research projects that aspire to lead the transition from their research to companies).