Juana Mariño

Bogota

Juana Mariño Drews is the Program Coordinator for Policy, Legislation and Decision Making at the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources, Colombia’s national biodiversity and ecosystem research institute. Juana holds degrees in architecture and management from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She is a former Director of Population and Land Use Planning at the Ministry of the Environment in Colombia, and has over 20 years of experience consulting on urban and rural planning for public and private entities in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua. She has been a professor and lecturer, teaching undergraduate courses at the School of Architecture and Industrial Design in Panamá City, and graduate courses on urban and rural planning at the Universities of El Rosario and El Externado in Bogota. Through her roles as an active architect, civil servant, international expert, and academician, Juana has been involved in the research, planning, and building of the human habitat, and has developed a broad and unique perspective on environmental issues, and their impact on the various stakeholders.